DAVENPORT, DIOCESI DI - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. IV, p. 730

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

DAVENPORT, Diocese of. - In the state of Iowa in the United States of America, erected as a diocese by Leo XIII on 8 May 1881, a suffragan of Dubuque, with a territory of approx. 29,700 sq km.

In 1948, out of a population of approx. 599,361 inhabitants, it had 70,259 Catholics, with 126 parishes, 22 chapels, 106 diocesan priests and 23 regular priests, 1 diocesan seminary, 3 colleges, 5 academies, 51 parochial schools. In the same year there were 391 conversions. This territory successively belonged to the dioceses of New Orleans (1793), St Louis (1827) and finally Dubuque (1837), from which it was separated on 8 May 1881 to form a diocese with its see at D., following the considerable immigration of Irish and German Catholics to the region. On 15 June 1893 it passed to the new province of

Article illustration — Davenport - State College of Iowa.

BIBL.: AAS, 2 (1911), p. 479; W. P. Shannahan, s. V. in Cath. Enc., IV, p. 640; Leonis XIII PP. MM. Acta, XIII, Rome 1893, pp. 177-79; J. H. O'Donnell, The catholic hierarchy of the United States 1790-1922, Washington 1922 (v. index); D. C. Shearer, Pontificia americana... 1781-1854, ibid. 1933 (v. index); The official catholic directory 1947, New York 1947 part 2, pp. 418-22.