[10][11] Pope John Paul II named Reverend Donald Pelotte as coadjutor archbishop in 1986 to assist Hastrich.

[14] In January 2008, Pope Benedict XVI named an apostolic administrator to run the diocese while Pelotte recovered.

[16] The chapel contains images of the Holy Family, James, brother of Jesus, Francis de Sales, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, two angels, and the Sacred Heart.

In May 2023, Wall announced that the diocese was taking over operation of St. Michael's Mission from the Franciscans due to their inability to support it any longer.

[17] Also in 2013, the diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to settle the sexual abuse lawsuits against diocesan clergy.

In 2004, James Burns was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sexually abusing a boy in Blanco, New Mexico.

Hageman was transferred to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe from the Diocese of Corpus Christi when allegations of sexual abuse arose there.

In 1940, Bishop Espelage had asked Archbishop Rudolph Gerken of Santa Fe for his opinion of Hageman.