[5] Before and during the American Revolutionary War, the Catholics in all of the British colonies in America were under the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Vicariate of the London District in England.

In 1876, Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, sent a party of Benedictine monks to western North Carolina.

[citation needed] In 1881, Leo XIII appointed Henry P. Northrop as the new vicar apostolic of North Carolina.

To replace Hafey as bishop of Raleigh, the pope appointed Monsignor Eugene J. McGuinness from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that same year.

Waters was accused by some of the diocesan clergy of holding on to idle church property worth millions of dollars while some parishes were in debt.

[21] The Catholic population in Charlotte continued to grow, leading Donoghue to declare in the early 1990s that it would be the decade of evangelization.

[21] Curtin started the first affordable housing initiative in the diocese and concentrated on ministry to the elderly, sick and dying.

[22] As bishop, Curlin continued his ministry to the poor, ordained 28 men to the priesthood and opened numerous Churches throughout the diocese.

That same year, Curlin stated that any priest in the diocese accused of sexual abuse of a minor would be immediately removed from ministry.

In 2003, John Paul II appointed Monsignor Peter J. Jugis, judicial vicar of the diocese, as its fourth bishop.

[21] In July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued the apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum, which allowed all priests to celebrate the Tridentine Latin Mass with some restrictions.

[24] In October 2007, Reverend Samuel Weber celebrated this mass, the first held in the diocese since 1969, at Davis Chapel of Wake Forest University.

[citation needed] Lonnie Billard, a substitute teacher at Charlotte Catholic High School, was fired by the diocese in 2014 after announcing his intention on social media to marry another man.

[26] Jugis in September 2020 opened St. Joseph College Seminary in Mount Holly to prepare more priests for the diocese.

At the end of the year, Jugis formally requested that the Vatican place the Diocese of Charlotte under the patronage of Mary, the Mother of God.

[29] Jugis in 2023 submitted his resignation as bishop of Charlotte due to a chronic kidney condition that made it impossible to continue working.

[5] In early 2024, Jugis announced plans to build a new cathedral, citing the space limitations of the current facility.

[5] In November 2019, the North Carolina Legislature passed legislation extending the statute of limitations for filing sex abuse lawsuits.

[33] In December 2019, the diocese placed Patrick T. Hoare, pastor at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Charlotte, on administrative.

[35] Also in December 2019, Bishop Jugis released a list of 14 priests credibly accused of sexual abuse in the diocese since 1972.

[40] In 2009, Robert Yurgel, a former priest at St. Matthew's Parish, was arrested after pleading guilty to second-degree sexual offense of a minor.

[43] In December 2020, a California man filed a lawsuit against the diocese, claiming that Robert Yurgel had sexually abused him when he was five to seven years old at St. Mathew's Parish in the late 1990s.

The Diocese of Charlotte said that it had never received any concerns from Congregation of the Holy Spirit about Spangenberg's behavior in Pennsylvania, and that there had been no complaints about him in North Carolina.

The plaintiffs alleged that the diocese shielded two credibly accused priests, Richard Farwell and Joseph Kelleher.

In November 2021, the diocese was sued by man who claimed he had been sexually assaulted by Donald Baker, a diocesan priest, in the 1980s.

[50] Baker resigned from ministry in 1994; he was added to the list of diocese priests with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors in 2016.

[51] A man sued the diocese in November 2021, claiming that he had been sexually assaulted as a minor by Francis Gillespie during the late 1990s when he was serving as pastor at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish.

The plaintiff's attorney reported the alleged abuse in September 2021 to Jugis and the Society of Jesus, which immediately suspended the retired priest.