CHEYENNE, DIOCESI DI - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. III, p. 824

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CHEYENNE, DIOCESE OF. — Cheyenne is the capital of the State of Wyoming in the United States and is a suffragan diocese of Denver in the State of Colorado. Its territory comprises the entire State of Wyoming (253,587 sq. km.) and Yellowstone National Park.

In 1947, out of a population of 264,000, Catholics numbered 40,083, under the care of 41 priests and 11 religious, with 66 churches, of which 26 were parish churches, 40 missions, and 16 stations; 2 parochial high schools (one for Indians) and 1 orphanage. In 1947 there were 185 conversions. This territory originally belonged to the Apostolic Vicariate of Nebraska, then to the Diocese of Omaha, erected on 2 Oct. 1885, until 2 Aug. 1887 when it was established as a suffragan diocese of St. Louis, then of Dubuque (15 June 1893), and finally of Denver on 15 Nov. 1941.

BIBL.: Acta Leonis XIII, V, Rome 1886, pp. 114-15; VIII, ibid. (1888), pp. 175-77; XIII, ibid. (1894), pp. 177-79; J. A. Duffy, s. V. in Cath. Enc., III, p. 651; J. H. O'Donnell, The Catholic Hierarchy of the United States, 1790-1922, Washington 1922, see index; H. Margaret, Father De Smet, S. J. pioneer priest of the Rockies, New York 1940; AAS, 34 (1942), pp. 192-94; The Official Catholic Directory 1947, ibid. 1947, part 2°, pp. 384-85. Corrado Morin