AMARILLO, Diocese of. — In Texas (United States), suffragan of San Antonio. Erected on 3 August 1926, it comprises seventy counties of Texas. Catholics: 31,144 out of 650,000 inhabitants; parishes: 39; diocesan priests: 38; regular priests: 28.
BIBL.: AAS, 18 (1926), p. 137; 19 (1927), pp. 169-72; C. E. Castaneda, Our Catholic Heritage in Texas, 1519-1936, IV, Austin 1940. — Anon., V. s.V. in The Cath. Enc., I (rev. ed., 1936), p. 390.