BAKER CITY, Diocese of. - In Oregon, United States of America, suffragan of Portland. Erected on 19 June 1903 by the dismemberment of the diocese of Oregon (today the archdiocese of Portland), this diocese comprises two thirds of the state of Oregon with an area of more than 182,240 sq km. It has 23 parishes, with 32 diocesan priests and 8 regulars and 11,600 Catholics out of 250,000 inhabitants (1948).

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BIBL.: Th. F. Meehan, s.v. in The Cath. Enc., II (1907), p. 213 and XVII (Suppl. 1922), p. 79; O. B. Corrigan, Chronology of the Catholic hierarchy of the United States, in The Catholic historical review, 1 (1916), p. 384; T. F. O'Connor, A brief history of the diocese of B. C., Baker 1930; id., A Century of Catholicism in the Oregon country (Historical records and studies, 20), Baker City 1938, pp. 29-48; The Official Catholic Directory, II, Nueva York 1939, p. 246; E. V. O'Hara, Pioneer Catholic history of Oregon (Centennial edition), Paterson N. J. 1939.

Corrado Morin

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