Diocese of Oakland

Visuals

Diocese-level visuals summarize the monitored Oakland site set; they are not appraisals or sale confirmations.

Overview

The Diocese of Oakland / Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland is the Catholic jurisdiction covering Alameda and Contra Costa counties. It is the central entity in the east-bay-catholic-property-sales-monitor because its Chapter 11 case, Mission Alignment Process, and announced site closures drive the property-sale watch.

Financial dynamics to track

• Chapter 11 filing date: 2023-05-08.
• Cited bankruptcy cause: more than 330 child-sexual-abuse lawsuits.
• Official Chapter 11 page describes proposed survivor-trust funding involving cash, loans, insurance rights, and real estate sales/contributions.
• Officially described real-estate contribution range in one plan: $43 million to approximately $81 million or more.
• Official 2025-12 update: willingness, with Roman Catholic Welfare Corporation of Oakland, to pay $200 million over five years to a survivors’ trust, with three insurers committing more than $42.5 million.

May 2026 court-docket property signals

• Verita docket #2902, the 2026-05-08 first amended disclosure statement, says RCBO is willing to sell a considerable percentage of its real estate, “including up to thirteen houses of worship or pastoral centers,” to fund survivor compensation.
• Docket #2902 further says the plan uses all twelve vacant Debtor parcels, vacant portions of eighteen Debtor parcels, Debtor-owned portions of thirteen real-property locations where churches operate, five Debtor residential homes, one Adventus residential home, and other ministry real estate only if absolutely necessary. The disclosure says this is “not less than 48 parcels of real estate.”
• Verita docket #2867, the 2026-04-29 plan supplement, Exhibit G, identifies “real property anticipated to be sold or collateralized to fund the Plan,” including specific Oakland sites tracked in east-bay-catholic-property-sales-monitor and oakland-catholic-church-price-screen-2026-05-13.
• Oakland whole-site sale/collateralization entries in Exhibit G: saint-patrick-oakland, saint-augustine-oakland, our-lady-of-lourdes-oakland, saint-paschal-baylon-oakland, sacred-heart-oakland, saint-andrew-kim-korean-pastoral-center-oakland, and mary-help-of-christians-oakland.
• Oakland parish-house entry in Exhibit G: saint-leo-the-great-oakland APN 13-1117-25 at 4272 Howe St.
• Docket #2867, Exhibit J, contains form settlement documents under which The Catholic Cathedral Corporation of the East Bay would transfer the cathedral-parish-of-christ-the-light / 2121 Harrison Street Cathedral Property to RCBO in satisfaction of the CCCEB Note after confirmation/effective date. This is an ownership/estate-structure signal, not a sale listing.
• Verita docket #2936, the 2026-05-13 interim DIP financing order, lists DIP collateral in Lafayette, Hayward, Antioch, and Livermore, but no Oakland parish/church site.
• No public asking price, broker listing, confirmed buyer, or sale price was identified for any Oakland church site in the 2026-05-13 nightly pass.

Closure dynamics

The 2026-04-28 Mission Alignment Process announcement names 13 sites for closure, with timing unique to each site. The official FAQ says property-sale proceeds/disposition will be handled by Bishop Barber in collaboration with receiving pastors.

The May 2026 docket materials materially sharpen the watch: the plan supplement does not merely discuss “real estate” generically; it names specific sites for potential sale or collateralization. Sale versus collateralization remains unresolved until later plan, deed-of-trust, broker, bid-procedure, sale-motion, listing, or recorder evidence appears.

Watch relationship

Use property-sale-signals to distinguish closure talk from sale evidence. The cost question remains open until listings, court sale motions, parcel valuations, comparable sales, or named buyer terms appear. Current dollar figures in the Oakland dossiers remain agent estimate screens unless explicitly labeled otherwise.

Court-docket update — 2026-05-13

The nightly docket pass records Verita docket #2867 Exhibit G as listing real property anticipated to be sold or collateralized to fund the plan, including named Oakland closure sites. Docket #2902 is summarized as committing the debtor to use not less than 48 parcels of real estate to fund plan obligations, including up to thirteen houses of worship or pastoral centers. See east-bay-catholic-property-sales-monitor and oakland-catholic-church-price-screen-2026-05-13.