Today the Oakland Diocese is comprised of some 550,000 Catholics amid a total population of 2.8 million people in our part of the Bay Area. As the Catholic population of the East Bay has grown, so has its diversity. Our Diocese is home to numerous ethnic pastoral and cultural centers, and Masses are celebrated regularly in more than a dozen languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Kmhmu, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, and Tagalog.
