Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque

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Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Dubuquensis
St. Raphael's Cathedral
Coat of arms
Location
Country	United States
Territory	30 counties in Northeastern Iowa
Ecclesiastical province	Dubuque
Coordinates	42°29′06″N 90°40′31″W / 42.48500°N 90.67528°W / 42.48500; -90.67528
Statistics
Area	17,400 sq mi (45,000 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2018[1]) 1,010,471 193,360 (19.1%)
Parishes	166
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	July 28, 1837 (187 years ago)
Cathedral	St. Raphael's Cathedral
Patron saint	St. Raphael St. John Vianney[2]
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Thomas Robert Zinkula
Metropolitan Archbishop	Thomas Robert Zinkula
Bishops emeritus	Jerome Hanus, O.S.B. Michael Owen Jackels
Map
Website
dbqarch.org

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque (Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Dubuquensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the northeastern quarter of the state of Iowa in the United States.

It includes all the Iowa counties north of Polk, Jasper, Poweshiek, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar, and Clinton counties, and east of Kossuth, Humboldt, Webster and Boone counties. The archdiocese has an area of about 17,400 square miles (45,000 km²).

The Archdiocese of Dubuque is a metropolitan archdiocese. There are three suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province under Dubuque's metropolitan archbishop: the Dioceses of Davenport, Des Moines, and Sioux City.^[1]