page_title: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
section_title: Province of Los Angeles
hierarchical_section_title: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles / Province of Los Angeles
caption_attribution_description: English: The Ecclesiastical Province of Los Angeles in the Catholic Church encompasses the six dioceses in Southern California.
context_page_description: The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. state of California. Based in Los Angeles, the archdiocese comprises the California counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura. The cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, and its present archbishop is José Horacio Gómez. With approximately five million professing members, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is numerically the single largest diocese in the United States.
  The Archbishop of Los Angeles also serves as metropolitan bishop of the suffragan dioceses within the Ecclesiastical Province of Los Angeles, which includes the dioceses of Fresno, Monterey, Orange, San Bernardino, and San Diego.
  Following the establishment of the Spanish missions in California, the diocese of the Two Californias was established on 1840, when the Los Angeles region was still part of Mexico. In 1848, Mexican California was ceded to the United States, and the U.S. portion of the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Monterey.
caption: Map of the Ecclesiastical Province of Los Angeles
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