The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas is a metropolitan see. Its metropolitan archbishop oversees an ecclesiastical province with three suffragan dioceses : the Dioceses of Dodge City, Salina, and Wichita. The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas comprises the following counties: [ 1 ]. During the 18th century, present day Kansas was under the jurisdictions of Spain and France. The Vatican in erected the Diocese of St. Louis, which included Kansas and the vast Missouri Territory.
During the early s, Catholic missionaries started building chapels for their Native American converts. In , Jesuit priests established the St. Mary's Mission in St. Marys, Kansas , along the Oregon Trail, to evangelize the Potawatomi people. Louis as the vicar apostolic. He would celebrate mass at these stops on the rear end of his wagon.
It was served by eight priests in 11 missions and 18 stations. In , the Vatican suppressed the Vicariate of the Indian Territory, creating instead the Vicariate of Kansas, including all of Kansas. Mary's, founded in That same year, the Benedictine Sisters founded the Mount St. Scholastica convent in Atchison, Kansas.
Fink automatically became the second apostolic vicar of Kansas. By , the number of Catholics in the diocese had risen to 60, In , the pope moved several more counties from Leavenworth to Concordia. By the time of Fink's death in , the Diocese of Leavenworth had priests, churches, 13 stations and chapels , 37 parochial schools, and 35, Catholics.
In , Schulte became archbishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Louis as the next bishop of Leavenworth. Hunkeler retired in due to health problems. He accused Sebelius, a Catholic, of leading "the death-march of the unborn to the abortion clinics in the [Kansas] House of Representatives" and "attempting to make the 'death-marches' to the abortion clinics as legal as the death-marches to the gas chambers of the World War II Holocaust.
