SALINA (formerly Concordia), Diocese of. - City and diocese in the State of Kansas (United States).

It comprises a territory of about 26,685 square miles in the northwest of Kansas. It has a population of 337,052 inhabitants, of whom 41,788 are Catholics; it has 99 parishes, served by 85 diocesan priests and 42 religious. In the diocese there are furthermore 2 male religious institutes and 4 female ones. In 1950 there were 295 conversions.

This territory was elevated to a diocese by Leo XIII on 2 Aug. 1887 by the dismemberment of the diocese of Leavenworth, whose western part gave rise to two dioceses, Concordia and Wichita, suffragans of St. Louis. Following new boundary adjustments, 31 counties were assigned to the diocese of Concordia. The diocese is a suffragan of St. Louis; the see was transferred to S. on 23 Dec. 1944.

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BIBL.: A. T. Eunis, Concordia, in Cath. Enc., IV, pp. 206-207; Leoni XIII Acta, VII, Rome 1887, pp. 178-80; XVII, ibid. 1902, pp. 209-11; The official cath. directory 1950, New York 1950, pp. 528-30.

Corrado Morin

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Salina (formerly Concordia), Diocese of

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