The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical province or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States of America. The archbishop's episcopal seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Kansas City, Kansas. The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas is a metropolitan see. Its metropolitan archbishop oversees an ecclesiastical province with three suffragan dioceses: the Dioceses of Dodge City, Salina, and Wichita. Territory The Archdiocese comprises the following twenty-one counties of the U.S. state of Kansas: Anderson Atchison Brown Coffey Doniphan Douglas Franklin Jackson Jefferson Johnson Leavenworth Linn Lyon Marshall Miami Nemaha Osage Pottawatomie Shawnee Wabaunsee Wyandotte History The archdiocese was originally established as the Vicariate Apostolic of Indian Territory East of the Rocky Mountains on July 19, 1850, by Pope Pius IX. It was composed of the present day states of Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. It lost territory and its name was changed to the Vicariate Apostolic of Kansas in 1857. The vicariate was elevated to the Diocese of Leavenworth by Pope Leo XIII on May 22, 1877. It lost territory in 1887 when the dioceses of Concordia and Wichita were created, and in 1897 when several counties were moved to Concordia. The name of the diocese was changed to the Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas on May 10, 1947, by Pope Pius XII. All of these jurisdictions were in the Ecclesiastical Province of Saint Louis. The Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas was elevated to an archdiocese by Pius XII on August 9, 1952. The province encompasses the entire state of Kansas and has three suffragan sees, the dioceses of Dodge City, Salina (formerly Concordia) and Wichita. Reports of sex abuse In February 2019, it was announced that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) had been investigating sex abuse allegations against the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas and its suffragan Dioceses in the state of Kansas since November 2018. On August 14, 2020, Melissa Underwood, spokeswoman for the KBI, stated in an email “As of Aug. 7, we have had 205 reports of abuse and have opened 120 cases.” Bishops Apostolic Vicar of Indian Territory East of the Rocky Mountains John Baptiste Miège, S.J. (1850–1857), title changed with title of apostolic vicariate Apostolic Vicars of Kansas John Baptiste Miège, S.J. (1857–1874) Louis Mary Fink, O.S.B. (1874–1877), title changed with