The Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas is becoming a metropolitan archdiocese, with Bishop George Leo Thomas being named the initial metropolitan archbishop of Las Vegas, the Vatican announced ...

Pope Francis, the leader of the world’s Catholics, on Tuesday officially created the Archdiocese of Las Vegas, the first ... number as well is said to be Roman Catholic.” ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas has installed its third bishop. KSNV-TV reports George Thomas, the former bishop of Helena, Montana, officially became the new ...

“This is really a remarkable legacy moment in Las Vegas, and for the Catholic Church as a whole.” The Holy See created the Diocese of Las Vegas in 1995, when it divided the Diocese of Reno-Las ...

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church died Monday ... including when the Pope named the “Diocese” of Las Vegas to an “Archdiocese” in 2023. Archbishop Thomas considered him a friend ...

One of only two people the then-bishop knew in his new diocese at the time ... II is alive and well” in Las Vegas, the archbishop said. Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic News Agency’s senior ...