LA CROSSE, Diocese of. - City in the State of Wisconsin in the United States: suffragan of Milwaukee, it comprises the following 19 counties in the State of Wisconsin: Adams, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire, Jackson, Juneau, La C., Marathon, Monroe, Pepin, Pierce, Portage, Richland, Trempealeau, Vernon and Wood, with a total area of 15,078 square miles.
It has a population of 577,206 inhabitants (1950 census), of whom 142,609 are Catholics, divided into 205 parishes, 72 chapels, 56 missions, with 232 diocesan priests, 68 regulars, 1 seminary, 1 college, 14 high schools, 86 parochial schools; in 1946 there were 809 conversions. In the diocese there are 9 male religious communities with 730 professed members and 16 female ones (with 1,350 professed members), among them that of the Holy Family for girls of the Negro race. La C. was erected as a diocese on 8 February 1868 as a suffragan of St. Louis, at the request of the second Plenary Council of Baltimore held in 1866. The first bishop was Msgr. M. Heiss. In 1870 it became part of the new ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee. Its territory, which then extended between the banks of the Wisconsin and the Mississippi, was divided in 1905 to form the diocese of Superior. The Cathedral is dedicated to St. Joseph.
Bibliography5 worksF. Meehan, s. v. in Cath. Enc., VIII, p. 735; XVII, Supplement, p. 445; I. H. O'Donnell, The Catholic hierarchy in the United States 1790-19
BIBL.: F. Meehan, s. v. in Cath. Enc., VIII, p. 735; XVII, Supplement, p. 445; I. H. O'Donnell, The Catholic hierarchy in the United States 1790-1922, Washington 1922, see index; D. C. Shearer, Pontificia Americana... 1784-1884, ibid. 1933, see index; The Official Catholic directory 1947, New York 1947, pp. 521-26.
Morin, Corrado. “La Crosse, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 796. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/la-crosse-diocesi-di.
MLA
Morin, Corrado. “La Crosse, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 796. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/la-crosse-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_la_crosse_diocesi_di,
author = {Morin, Corrado},
title = {La Crosse, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {796},
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/la-crosse-diocesi-di}
}
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