BISMARCK, Diocese of. - In the State of North Dakota (United States of America), suffragan of St. Paul of Minnesota. Erected on 31 Dec. 1909 by the dismemberment of the diocese of Fargo, B. comprises the western part of the State with an area of more than 96,375 sq km. In this diocese, at Richardton, is located the Benedictine abbey of St. Mary of the Assumption, founded in 1901 by Father Dom Vincent Werle, O.S.B., who was afterward, on 9 Apr. 1910, elected first bishop of B.

Statistics: 48,809 Catholics, belonging for the most part to German families that immigrated especially from Russia and Hungary, 154 diocesan priests and 79 regulars, 78 parishes, 29 chapels, 74 missions, 4 stations, 1 boys' college, 10 diocesan and parochial high schools; in 1947 there were 219 conversions.

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BIBL.: AAS, 2 (1910), p. 200; 3 (1911), p. 506; M. C. Coyle, s. v. in The Cath. Enc., XVI, Index, (1914), pp. 10-11; XVII (Suppl. 1922), p. 110 ff.; J. H. O'Donnell, The catholic hierarchy of the United States 1790-1922, Washington 1922, pp. 205-206; E. Van Cauwenbergh, s. v. in DHG, IX, coll. 8-9; The Official Catholic Directory, New York 1947, part 2, pp. 333-36.

Corrado Morin

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