JOLIET, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the State of Illinois, in the United States of America. It comprises the counties of Du Page, Kankakee, Will, Grundy, Ford, Iroquois and Kendall, all in the State of Illinois.
It has an area of 4,218 square miles, with a population of 355,573 inhabitants, of whom 93,229 are Catholics. It has 73 parishes, 16 missions, 3 chapels; 73 diocesan priests and 130 regulars, 16 religious communities, among which is the abbey of St. Procopius in Lisle; it also has 63 communities of women religious. In the diocese there are 5 seminaries and scholasticates with 426 students, 3 Colleges, 2 parochial High Schools and 46 elementary schools; in 1949 there were 422 conversions.
The diocese was created by Pius XII with the apostolic constitution Ecclesiastum circumscriptiones of 11 Dec. 1948, by dismemberment from the archdiocese of Chicago and from the dioceses of Peoria and Rockford, raising the church of St. Raymond Nonnatus to the rank of cathedral. The diocese is a suffragan of Chicago.
Bibliography2 worksAAS, 41 (1942), pp. 397-99; The official catholic directory, 1950, New York 1950, pp. 385-88.
Josi, Enrico. “Joliet Ill, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 587. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/joliet-ill-diocesi-di.
MLA
Josi, Enrico. “Joliet Ill, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 587. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/joliet-ill-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_joliet_ill_diocesi_di,
author = {Josi, Enrico},
title = {Joliet Ill, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {587},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/joliet-ill-diocesi-di}
}
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