The Most Rev. Raphael J. Adams, M.S.

Serving Christ in the Central United States

The Diocese of Michigan and the Central States includes the States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky and Arkansas.   Parishes and missions in Texas are under the jurisdiction of the Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of Michigan and the Central States.  The diocese was formed from the ecclesiastical territory formerly comprising the Midwestern Province of the Old Roman Catholic Church in North America with the election of the first bishop on April 12, 1975.