Bishop Michael Barber says the Diocese is seeing a trend of declining Mass attendance, Sacrament participation, and Catholic school enrollment.<\/p>\n
He says they are also at an all-time low of priests assigned to 80 parishes and the average age of priests continues to climb.<\/p>\n
MORE: Diocese of Oakland files for bankruptcy after over 330 child sexual abuse lawsuits<\/a><\/p>\n Bishop Barber says all affected parishioners will be welcomed at a nearby parish.<\/p>\n The Diocese is currently working to receive bankruptcy court approval of its proposed plan for reorganization.<\/p>\n Here’s the full list of closures:<\/p>\n Mary Help of Christians, Oakland Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — The Diocese of Oakland is closing 13 churches as it faces a financial crisis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[124463,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-291934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-124463","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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