[1] 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.

Anyone wanting to hold public office had to sign an oath stating that Protestantism was the true Christian faith.

[4] During the early 19th century, Irish Catholic immigrants started entering North Carolina to work on the railroads and other construction projects.

In his first four weeks in office, he traveled almost a thousand miles, visiting towns and mission stations and administering the sacraments.

Northrup held both positions until 1888, when the Vatican allowed him to resign as vicar apostolic and only serve as bishop of Charleston.

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.

[10] After Waters died in 1974, Pope Paul VI appointed Auxiliary Bishop F. Joseph Gossman of Baltimore in 1975 to replace him.

After his resignation in 2006, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia as the new bishop of Raleigh Soon after taking office, Burbidge announced the building of a new cathedral for the diocese, to be named the Cathedral of the Holy Name of Jesus.

[18] After the tornado outbreak of April 2011, which killed 24 people in North Carolina and other states, Burbidge urged Catholics to include victims and survivors in their Holy Week prayers.

[19] He directed the diocese's parishes and mission churches to hold a special collection for a disaster relief fund to be used to help survivors.

The Basilica Shrine of St. Mary in Wilmington served as a cathedral for the Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina until its suppression in 1924.

In 2004, two men reported to the Diocese of Raleigh that they had been sexually molested as teenagers by Shoback after he gave them liquor and showed them pornography.

[26] In July 2015, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled to allow the advancement to trial of a lawsuit against the diocese and Bishop Burbidge over an allegation of child sexual abuse by Reverend Edgar Sepulveda.

[27] The alleged victim was sixteen-year-old boy who claimed being abused by Sepulveda when he was a priest of the Santa Teresa del Niño Jesús Mission in Beulaville, North Carolina.

At that time, Burbidge had put Sepulveda on administrative leave, prohibiting him from visiting any parish or Catholic school, and removed him from residence on church grounds.

Presley, whom the report describes as a "violent predator who insinuated himself into the lives of families for the purpose of getting close enough to their children that he could abuse them",[33] had served at a parish in Kinston, North Carolina, from 1981 until 1983.

[36] In April 2024 Patrick Tuttle, a Franciscan friar who served as an associate pastor and middle school teacher at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Immaculata Catholic School in Durham from 1996 until at least 2009, was removed from public ministry after allegations of sexual misconduct.

[37] In 2009, the Diocese of Raleigh established a chapter of Courage International, a Catholic apostolate that ministered to gay and lesbian people and considered homosexuality to be a treatable condition.

[38] The ministry's executive director stated that Courage's goal was to "assist men and women who are afflicted with the thorn of same-sex attraction.

"[38] Courage International encouraged celibacy among gay men and women, and used a twelve-step program for treatment that was similar to that of Alcoholics Anonymous.

The postcard also contained a passage from the Gospel of Matthew, stating "From the beginning the Creator made them male and female and said: for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become flesh.

[44] In 2022, Immaculata Catholic School prohibited a student's family from hiring a transgender woman to serve as their child's in-school aide.