The second bishop of Yakima was Monsignor Cornelius Power of Seattle, selected by Pope Paul VI in 1969.

To replace Sevilla, Pope Benedict XVI named Auxiliary Bishop Joseph J. Tyson of Seattle in 2011.

[9] This was inspired by the Youth Migrant Project in the Archdiocese of Seattle[10] As of 2014, the diocese had 41 parishes and seven Catholic schools.

The Diocese of Yakima in January 2008 agreed to pay $25,000 each to four women who claimed to have been sexually abused by Reverend Michael Simpson.

[13] In April 2008, Bishop Sevilla accepted blame for hiring former diocesan seminarian Juan Gonzalez in 2003 to work as a retreat director for the diocese.

Gonzalez was being investigated at that time by police in Marion County, Oregon, for viewing child pornography.

[16] In May 2008, Sevilla admitted that he failed to notify parishioners in the diocese about Reverend Jose Joaquin Estrada Arango, convicted earlier in 2008 of fondling a 14-year-old girl in Oregon.

The plaintiff claimed to have been sexually assaulted in 1999 at age 17 by seminarian Aaron Ramirez at Resurrection Catholic Church in Zillah.

[20] In July 2019, the diocese published a list of 21 priests and deacons with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors.