CHEYENNE, Diocese of. - Capital of the State of Wyoming in the United States, it 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 inhabitants, Catholics numbered 40,083, under the direction of 41 priests and 11 religious, with 66 churches of which 26 were parochial, 40 missions and 16 stations, 2 parochial high schools (1 for Indians) and 1 orphanage. In 1947 there were 185 conversions. This territory was at first part of the apostolic vicariate of Nebraska, then of the diocese of Omaha, created on 8 Oct. 1885, until on 2 Aug. 1887 it was erected as a suffragan diocese of St. Louis first, then of Dubuque (15 June 1893) and finally on 15 Nov. 1941 of Denver.

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BIBL.: Acta Leoni XIII, V, Rome 1886, pp. 114-15; VII, 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

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