Dallas, Diocese of (DALLAS, DIOCESI DI) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, p. 660

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

DALLAS, DIOCESE — Diocese and city in the State of Texas, United States of America, suffragan of S. Antonio, comprising an area of approximately 81,800 sq. km. It is a suffragan of the metropolitan diocese of S. Antonio.

In 1946, out of more than 2,290,000 inhabitants, it counted more than 70,000 Catholics under the direction of 87 diocesan priests and 79 religious, with 91 parishes, 43 missions, 15 stations and 45 chapels, 1 college, 23 High schools, and 42 parochial schools. In 1946 there were 547 conversions. Nine male and thirteen female religious institutes reside in the diocese.

The territory of the Diocese was colonized by immigrant families especially from Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana, and by a large number of Negroes. Its erection as a diocese, with residence at D., took place on 15 July 1890, by separation from the diocese of Galveston. It was at first a suffragan of New Orleans; it then gave rise to the dioceses of El Paso (1914) and Amarillo (1925), before passing on 3 Aug. 1926 to the new province of S. Antonio.

BIBL.: Lewis XIII P. M. acta, X, Rome 1890, pp. 183–191; J. H. O'Donnell, The Catholic hierarchy of U. S. 1790-1922, Washington 1922 (v. indice); AAS, 19 (1927), pp. 167–171; H. W. Cleary, s. V. in Cath. Enc., IV, p. 605; C. E. Castaneda, Our Catholic heritage in Texas 1519-1916, 7 vols., Austin 1936 (v. indice); The official Catholic directory 1947, New York 1947, part 2ᵃ, pp. 414–17. Corrado Morin