DUBROVNIK, DIOCESI di: V. BAGUSA, DIOCESI d
i. DUBUQUE, ARCIDIOCESI di
Archdiocese and city of the State of Iowa in the United States of America. Its territory, covering approximately 45,250 sq km, extends across the northern part of the same state, with the counties of Polk, Jasper, Poweshiek, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar, and Clinton, and to the east with the counties of Kossuth, Humboldt, Webster, and Boone; its suffragans are the dioceses of Nebraska and Michigan, namely Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, Davenport, Sioux City, and Des Moines.In 1948, out of a population of more than 800,000 inhabitants, D. had 140,620 Catholics under the direction of 1 auxiliary bishop, 362 diocesan priests, and 35 religious, with 241 parishes, 40 chapels, 43 missions, 7 stations, 2 seminaries, 4 colleges, 4 academies, 79 high schools, and 108 parish schools. In 1946 there were 769 conversions. There are 3 communities of men religious, including a Cistercian abbey of strict observance at Peosta, and 17 communities of women religious.
Explored and evangelized in the 17th and 18th centuries by missionaries from Canada, this territory became accessible to European colonization only after its annexation to the United States, that is, beginning in 1833. D., thanks to its lead mines, attracted many settlers. Among these, the Catholics came chiefly from France, Germany, and Ireland; among them and the Indigenous peoples, the zeal of the Dominican Samuele Mazzucchelli shone forth. As the number of parishes increased, on 28 July 1837 the eastern part of what was then Wisconsin was detached from the diocese of St. Louis to form a diocese suffragan to Baltimore, with its see in D. It subsequently became suffragan to St. Louis, when the latter was erected as a metropolitan see; on 20 July 1847, through successive partitions, the dioceses of Davenport (1881), Sioux (1902), and Des Moines (1911) were formed, until D. itself became a metropolitan see on 15 June 1893.