DULUTH, DIOCESE of. - Diocese and city in the State of Minnesota, in the United States of America; it comprises the counties of Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook,
Crow Wing, Itasca, Lake, Pine, Koochiching and St. Louis, with a territory of approximately 57,000 sq. km. in north-eastern Minnesota.
In 1948, out of 381,256 inhabitants, the diocese had 87,950 Catholics served by 90 secular priests and 29 religious in 70 parishes, 24 chapels, 49 missions and 25 stations, 5 colleges and high schools, and 18 parochial schools.
In 1946 there were 208 conversions. In the diocese there are 6 male and 5 female religious Orders.
D., founded in the 17th century by Daniel Greysolon du
Luth, a French officer from whom it took its name, was incorporated as a city only in 1857, becoming, on 3 October 1889, the seat of a diocese separated from the apostolic vicariate of northern Minnesota, itself detached in 1875 from the diocese of San Paolo, of which D. has been a suffragan since its foundation.