Covington, Diocese of (COVINGTON, DIOCESI DI) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, p. 472

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

COVINGTON, DIOCESE of. - A city in the State of Kentucky (USA) and the seat of a diocese suffragan to Louisville.

Its territory, situated east of the Kentucky River, extends over approximately 44,600 sq. km. In 1947, out of 4,350,446 inhabitants, there were 65,000 Catholics, with 133 diocesan priests and 17 regular clergy, 69 parishes, 23 chapels, 24 mission stations, 15 high schools, 9 women’s colleges and academies, and 51 parochial schools. In the same year there were 1,416 baptisms and 310 conversions. The diocese also includes the Benedictine abbeys of S. Bernardo (Corbin, Middlesbore) and S. Vincenzo, the Redemptorist Fathers and the Brothers of Mary, and 10 women’s religious houses.

C. was erected as a diocese, suffragan to Cincinnati, on 28 July 1853. In Dec. 1937 it became part of the new ecclesiastical province of Louisville.

BIBL.: AAS, 30 (1938), pp. 260-62; J. L. Gorey, s. V. in Cath. Enc., IV, pp. 662-63; J. H. O'Donnell, The Cath. hierarchy of the United States 1790-1922, Washington 1922 (v. indici); D. C. Shearer, Pontificia Americana... 1784-1884, ibid. 1933 (v. indici); M. R. Maffingly, The Catholic Church on the Kentucky Frontier, ibid. 1936 (v. indici); The Official Catholic Directory 1947, New York 1947, part 2, pp. 407-10. Corrado Morin