Mass is celebrated over 180 times each Sunday in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin and Laotian.

To replace Guilfoyle, Pope John Paul II selected Auxiliary Bishop Roger Mahony of Fresno in 1980.

[6] Montrose focused on getting Spanish-speaking priests in the diocese, traveling to Mexico, Colombia and other Latin American countries to recruit them.

[9] As a result of the bankruptcy agreement, approximately $15 million was to be paid to sexual abuse victims of diocesan clergy.

[11] In 1998 a jury awarded two brothers, Joh and James Howard, a $30 million judgement against the Diocese of Stockton in a sexual abuse case.

However, Mahony admitted under oath in 2004 that a boy's parents had accused Antonio Munoz, another diocesan priest, of sexual abuse.

[13] In 2001, Bishop Blaire learned of allegations that in 1997 Reverend Oscar Pelaez, an extern priest from Colombia, had molested a 14-year-old boy at Sacred Heart Church in Turlock.

Blaire later commented that he did not take that step because the alleged victim was now an adult and had declined to report it to police himself.

[16] Ramon Bejarano, appointed auxiliary bishop of San Diego in 2020 The Diocese of Stockton consists of eight deaneries.