The Diocese of Memphis () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church consisting of the counties of Tennessee to the west of the Tennessee River. The diocese is split into two deaneries. The Memphis Deanery encompasses twenty-eight (28) parishes in Shelby County. The Jackson Deanery encompasses fourteen (14) parishes and five (5) missions in the other 20 counties in the diocese. The diocesan cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Memphis. The Diocese of Memphis is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Louisville. History Pope Paul VI erected the Diocese of Memphis on 20 June 1970, taking its present territory from the Diocese of Nashville and making it a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Louisville. Reports of sexual abuse In 2007, Diocese of Memphis settled three sex abuse lawsuits. In 2010, unsealed court documents revealed that at least 15 Catholic clergy who served in the Diocese of Memphis were accused of committing acts of sex abuse and that $2 million was secretly paid to one of these sex abuse victims. On February 19, 2020, it was revealed former Memphis Bishop Carroll Dozier was accused of committing acts of sex abuse in Diocese of Richmond before he was transferred to the Diocese of Memphis. In September 2019, the Richmond sex abuse accusations resulted in Dozier's image being removed the city of Memphis' "Upstanders Mural", located on a wall across from the National Civil Rights Museum. On February 28, 2020, the Diocese of Memphis released a list of 20 Catholic clergy who were credibly accused of sexually abusing children while serving in the Diocese. Tenure and removal of Bishop Martin Holley Pope Francis named Martin Holley Bishop of Memphis, on August 23, 2016, and he was installed as bishop on October 19, 2016. Holley transferred about 75% of the pastors in the diocese within a few months of becoming bishop, first requesting their resignations and giving them the title "parochial administrator" rather than "pastor" of the same parish so he could transfer them without their resignation. He also appointed a Canadian priest, Msgr. Clement J. Machado, SOLT to three diocesan offices: vicar general, moderator of the curia and diocesan chancellor. In January 2018, citing lack of funds, the diocese announced the closure of the ten schools in its network of Memphis Jubilee Catholic Schools, founded in 1999 to