CROOKSTON, Diocese of. - A city in Minnesota (U.S.A.) and the seat of a diocese suffragan to St. Paul of Minnesota.

Its territory of approximately 44,500 sq. km. comprises the counties of Brooker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Mahnomen, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake and Roseau in the State of Minnesota. In 1949 there were 31,250 Catholics out of 231,263 inhabitants, 58 diocesan priests, 21 religious, 52 parishes, 18 chapels, 36 missions and 4 stations, 4 academies and "High Schools," 13 parochial schools; in 1947 there were 128 conversions. The diocese furthermore counts 2 male religious institutes (Benedictines, Oblates of Mary Immaculate) and 4 female ones. C. was erected as a diocese on 31 Dec. 1909 by dismemberment of the archdiocese of St. Paul, of which it has remained suffragan.

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BIBL.: AAS, 2 (1910), p. 290; Anon., s. v. in Cath. Enc., XVII (supplement), p. 239; M. Hoffman, The Church Founders of the Northwest, Milwaukee 1937 (v. indexes); The Official Catholic Directory 1947, part 2, New York 1947, pp. 411-13.

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