GREAT FALLS, DIOCESI di. — City in the State of Montana in the United States. It comprises the following counties in the eastern part of the State of Montana: Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Carter, Cascade, Choteau, Custer, Dawson, Daniels, Fallon Fergus, Hill, Garfield, Golden Valley, Judith Basin, Liberty, Mc Cone, Musselshell, Park, Petroleum, Phillips, Powder River, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sheridan, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Treasure, Valley, Wibaux, and Yellowstone. The name of the diocese is very appropriate, because there the Missouri River makes a leap
The Parentadi, L’arzigogolo, and the three unfinished cycles of novelle (Le cene, ca. 1540–50). In opposition to Latinizing humanism and the canon of imitation, he defended the vernacular and sought to represent life. In the comedies, however, he did not succeed in freeing himself from the influence of tradition, nor in the novelle from that of Boccaccio; and although he lived in the age of Catholic reform, he paid no heed to moral proprieties and spared neither the religious.
The following works by G. are on the Index: La seconda cena, decree of 7 October 1746; Scelta di prose e poesie italiane (London 1765), decree of 26 January 1767.
of approximately 28 m. in a series of waterfalls that are exploited for electric power and irrigation. The region is very rich in minerals.
In 1850, the first to evangelize the area was the Jesuit De Smet with other companions, while in Montana the same fathers had established missions for the Indians as early as 1841. The diocese was erected by Pius X on 18 May 1904, and its first bishop was Mons. M. C. Lenihan (d. in 1943). The diocese is suffragan to Portland in Oregon. The cathedral of S. Anna was dedicated on 15 December 1907.
The diocese has an area of 94,158 square miles and a population of 288,600 inhabitants, of whom 40,200 are Catholics, distributed among 57 parishes, with 158 churches, 34 chapels, and 104 mission stations, served by 83 diocesan priests and 21 religious priests. There are four male religious communities in the diocese (Premonstratensians, Capuchins, Jesuits, Redemptorists) and ten female ones; for the education of young people there are: the College of Great Falls, 6 parish and 2 private High Schools; 13 parish elementary schools; in 1946 there were 261 conversions.