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Latin Catholic jurisdiction in the United States

The Archdiocese of Omaha (Archidioecesis Omahensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in northeastern Nebraska in the United States. Its current archbishop, George Joseph Lucas, was installed in Omaha on July 22, 2009. As of 2017, Archdiocese of Omaha served over 230,000 Catholics in approximately 120 parishes and missions. Its mother church is St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha.

Pope Pius XII elevated the Diocese of Omaha to the Archdiocese of Omaha on August 4, 1945. The pope named Ryan as the first archbishop of Omaha. Ryan died in 1947. The second archbishop of Omaha was Bishop Gerald Thomas Bergan of the Diocese of Des Moines, appointed by Pius XII in 1948. During his administration, more than $80 million was spent for new Catholic schools, churches, and hospitals in the archdiocese. This caused him to become known as the "building bishop". After Bergan retired in 1969, Pope Paul VI selected Auxiliary Bishop Daniel E. Sheehan of Omaha as the next archbishop. Sheehan's campaign for educational excellence raised more than $26 million to improve Catholic education in the Omaha Metropolitan Area. Sheehan retired in 1993.

Pope John Paul II in 1993 appointed Bishop Elden Francis Curtiss of the Diocese of Helena as the next archbishop of Omaha. Curtiss retired in 2009. That same year, Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop George Joseph Lucas of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois as the fifth archbishop of Omaha. As of 2023, Lucas is the archbishop of Omaha.

During the 1980s and 1990s, John Fiala amassed accusations of inappropriate behavior toward boys in the Archdiocese of Omaha. However, when Fiala tried to transfer to the Archdiocese of San Antonio in 1995, officials in Omaha gave him a clean bill of health. The archdiocese in 2010 settled a lawsuit brought against it by a Texas boy who had been sexually abused there in 2008 by Fiala. After the alleged assault, the boy had told his story to a school counselor; Fiala was then removed from ministry. When the boy filed his lawsuit in 2010, Fiala tried to hire a hitman in Texas to murder him. Fiala revealed his plans to an undercover policeman posing as a hitman. Fiala was convicted in Texas of attempted murder in 2010 and sentenced to 40 years in prison. In 2014, he was convicted of sexually abusing the boy and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. In 1997, a housekeeper found pictures and a video of nude boys in the possessions of Daniel Herek at his rectory in Omaha. She notified the archdiocese. Herek was convicted in 1998 of sexually assaulting and videotaping a 14 year old boy and was sentenced to 20 months to five years in prison. He was laicized by the Vatican. In 2002, a jury awarded $800,000 from the archdiocese to a boy who had been abused by Herek. During the lawsuit, Bishop Sheehan denied that he transferred Herek to different parishes due to complaints about sexual abuse. In 2002, Archbishop Curtiss removed Thomas Sellentin, an archdiocesan priest, from public ministry after Sellentin admitted sexually abusing boys over a 30 year period. Curtiss had received numerous complaints from parents and parishes over the previous years. In 2003, three brothers, Richard, Thomas and Steven Schommer, sued the archdiocese, stating they had all been abused by Sellentin. Sellentin was laicized by the Vatican in 2019. At the end of the 2010s, Lucas signed norms stronger than the 2002 Essential Norms (so called Zero Tolerance norms related to sexual abuse of parishioners). In October 2018, Lucas removed Francis Nigli, pastor of St. Wenceslas Parish in Omaha, from public ministry. A 21 year old man had accused Nigli of kissing and groping him on church grounds. In 2013, Nigli had been sent away for mental health treatment after making advances to an 18 year old man. Nigli was permanently banned from ministry by the Vatican in 2021. In November 2018, the archdiocese released the names of 38 priests and other clergy members who have been credibly accused of sexual misconduct, an action requested by the state's top prosecutor. Though the earliest incident of abuse on record was alleged to have happened in 1956, the archdiocese acknowledged that it did not record reports of sexual abuse until 1978.

Omaha parishes of the Archdiocese of Omaha Parish and date establishedAddressNotes Assumption (1894) 5434 S 22nd St. Czech heritage Blessed Sacrament (1919) 3020 Curtis Ave. Christ the King (1953) 654 S 86th St. Holy Cross (1922) 4803 William St. Holy Family (1876) 1715 Izard St. Holy Ghost (1918) 5219 S 53rd St. Holy Name (1917) 2901 Fontenelle Blvd. Immaculate Conception (1897) 2708 S 24th St. Polish heritage, celebrates Tridentine masses Mary Our Queen (1963) 3535 S 119th St. Mother of Perpetual Help (1975) 5215 Seward St. Church of the deaf Our Lady of Fatima 709 S 28th St. Our Lady of Guadalupe (1919) 2310 O St. Spanish heritage Our Lady of Lourdes (1917) 2110 S 32nd Ave. Sacred Heart (1890) 2218 Binney St. Sacred Heart (1881)200 S 5th St, Norfolk, NE Norfolk, Spanish and English heritages St. Adalbert (1916) 2617 S 31st St. Czech and Korean heritages St. Agnes (1889) 2215 Q St. Irish and Spanish heritages St. Anthony (1907) 5401 S 33rd St. Lithuanian heritage St. Benedict of Moor (1919) 2423 Grant St. African American heritage St. Bernard (1905) 3601 N 65th St. St. Bernadette 7600 So. 42 StreetBellevue St. Bridget (1887) 4112 S 26th St. Irish heritage St. Cecilia (1888) 715 N 40th St. St. Charles Borromeo (2005) 7790 South 192nd St. GretnaSt. Columbkille (1878)200 East 6th StreetPapillion St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1981) 5419 N 114th St. St. Frances Cabrini (1868) 1334 S 9th St. St. Francis Assisi 4521 S 32nd St. Polish and Spanish heritages St. Gerald (1962) 9602 Q St Lakeview Chapel 7859 Lakeview St, Ralston St. James (1963) 9025 Larimore Ave. St. Joan of Arc (1955) 3122 S 74th St. St. John (1897) 2500 California St. Creighton University – OmahaSt. John Paul II Newman Center1221 S. 71st St. University of Nebraska – Omaha St. John Vianney (1974) 5801 Oak Hills Dr. St. Joseph (1887) 1723 S 17th St. St. Leo the Great (1978) 1920 N 102nd St. St. Margaret Mary (1919) 6116 Dodge St. St. Mary (1902) 3529 Q St. St. Mary 2302 Crawford Street Bellevue St. Mary Magdalene (1868) 109 S 19th St. St. Matthew 12210 So. 36 Street Bellevue St. Bernadette 7600 So. 42 St. Bellevue St. Patrick (1868) 204th & Maple St. Elkhorn St. Patrick (1883) 1404 Castelar St. St. Peter 709 S 28th St. St. Philip Neri (1904) 8200 N 30th St. St. Pius X (1954) 6905 Blondo St. St. Richard (1963) 4320 Fort St. St. Robert Bellarmine (1966) 11802 Pacific St. St. Rose of Lima (1919) 4102 S 13th St. St. Stanislaus (1919) 4002 J St. Polish heritage St. Stephen the Martyr (1989) 16701 S St. St. Therese of the Child Jesus (1918) 2423 Grant St. St. Thomas More (1958) 4804 Grover St. St. Vincent de Paul (1991) 14330 Eagle Run Dr. St. Wenceslaus (1877) 15353 Pacific St. Czech heritage Sts. Peter and Paul (1917) 5912 S 36th St. Lithuanian, Croatian, Slovenian, and Hungarian heritages

Catholic secondary schools in the Omaha area School name Type City Address Date of founding All Saints Catholic School K 8 Omaha 1335 S. 10th St. Archbishop Bergan High School 6 12 Fremont 1950 Cedar Catholic High School Rural Hartington Central Catholic High School Rural West Point Creighton Preparatory School All boys Omaha 7400 Western Ave. 1878 Daniel J. Gross Catholic High School Private Bellevue 1968 Duchesne Academy All girls Omaha 3601 Burt St. 1881 Holy Family High School K 12 Lindsay Marian High School All girls Omaha 7400 Military Ave. 1955 Mercy High School All girls Omaha Mount Michael Benedictine Abbey and High School All boys Omaha 1953 Norfolk Catholic High School Rural Norfolk 1926 Pope John XXIII Central Catholic High School Rural Elgin 1967 Roncalli Catholic High School Private Omaha 6401 Sorensen Parkway 1974 St. Francis High School K 12 Humphrey St. Mary's High School K 12 O'Neill 1900 St. Peter Claver Cristo Rey Catholic High School Corporation Omaha 2007 Scotus Central Catholic High School Rural Columbus 1889 V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School Private Omaha 3131 S. 156th Street 1993