DIOCESE OF FARGO. - City in the State of North Dakota, in the United States of America and seat of a diocese suffragan of St. Paul of Minnesota, comprising 30 counties in the east of the same State, that is a territory of about 90,750 sq km.

In 1948, out of a population of 408,873 inhabitants, there were 74,539 Catholics, of whom 6,334 were Indians, distributed among 112 parishes and stations, under the direction of 150 priests, among whom were 19 religious, with 18 High Schools attended by 2,341 pupils and 23 elementary schools with 3,263 students. In 1946 there were 316 conversions. In the diocese there are also four communities of religious men (including a Benedictine abbey at Richardson) and 12 of religious women.

The present diocese was erected on 12 Nov. 1889 with its seat at Jamestown, transferred to F. on 24 May 1897. At that time it comprised all of North Dakota. On 31 Dec. 1909 Pius X divided off that territory to erect the diocese of Bismarck (v.).

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BIBL.: J. Shanley, s. v. in Cath. Enc., V, p. 786 ff.; Leonis XIII... Acta, IX, p. 249 and XVII, p. 77; The official catholic directory for 1947, New York 1947, part 2, pp. 448-52.

Cerrado Morin

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Diocese of Fargo

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