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DIOCESE OF BAKER
Country : United States
Denomination : Roman Catholic
Established : 1903 as Diocese of Baker City, renamed 1952
Official blazon
Azure, on a mountain of three coupeax two lions respectant holding a cross bottony-fitchy all or." Bishop McGrath's personal arms are "Argent, on a cross azure two vested forearms issuing in fess holding in pale a staff flowering in a lily at the top and surmounted of a star all of the first.
Origin/meaning
The diocesan arms were suggested by the the arms of an Irish O’Reilly family, which used two gold lions on a green field holding the familiar ‘hand of Ulster.’ They were chosen as the diocese was erected by Leo XIII, and Charles Joseph O’Reilly was the first bishop: thus one lion may be held to symbolize the Pontiff, Leo, planting the cross in this region (represented by the ‘mountain of three coupeaux,” for the diocesan Mt. Hood) and aided by the first devoted Ordinary, represented by an O’Reilly lion.
Arms of Bishops
Charles Joseph O'Reilly (1903-1918)
Joseph Francis McGrath (1918-1950)
Francis Peter Leipzig (1950-1971)
Thomas Joseph Connolly (1971-1999)
Robert Francis Vasa (2000-2011)
Liam Stephen Cary (2012-present)
Literature : Info Diocese of Baker