KANSAS CITY IN KANSAS, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the State of Kansas in the United States of America. The diocese comprises the following counties of the State of Kansas: Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Lyon, Marshall, Miami, Nemaha, Osage, Pottawatomie, Shawnel, Wabaunssee and Wyandotte.
The diocese has an area of 12,524 square miles with a population of 594,289 inhabitants, of whom 80,000 are Catholics; it has 133 parishes, 16 chapels, 99 diocesan priests and 211 regulars, 7 male religious communities, among which is the abbey of St. Benedict, 16 female religious communities, 3 seminaries, 5 colleges, 14 high-schools; in 1949 there were 735 conversions.
On July 19, 1850, Pope Pius IX established an apostolic vicariate for the Indian territory east of the Rocky Mountains, which comprised the present States of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, a large part of Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and part of Colorado. The first apostolic vicar was the Jesuit Giovanni B. Miège (b. Sept. 18, 1815, d. July 21, 1884), who traveled several times by carriage through the whole immense apostolic vicariate and tendered his resignation on Nov. 8, 1874; on May 22, 1877, Pope Pius IX created the diocese of Leavenworth, assigning it to the Benedictine Msgr. Luigi M. Fink (1877-1904); he was succeeded by Msgr. Tommaso F. Lillis (1904-10), then by Msgr. G. Ward (1910-29), then by Msgr. P. C. Schulte (1937), elevated to the archdiocese of Indianapolis in 1946; on Nov. 9 of the same year Msgr. G. D. Donnelly was promoted as his successor. The title of the diocese was changed to that of K. C. in K. on May 10, 1947. Patrons of the
(from Stasztaczkow, II, Friburgo i. Briugovia 1927, tov. f. l.) KANT, IMMANUEL - Portrait, Lithograph.
diocese: the Most Holy Madonna under the title of the Immaculate Conception and St. John Baptist Vianney. The Cathedral is dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle.
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