LANSING. - City and diocese in the State of Michigan (United States).

It has an area of 8,713 square miles and comprises the counties of Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Hillsdale, Ingham, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Livingston, St. Joseph, Shiawassee and Van Buren, all in the State of Michigan.

Out of a population of 1,001,648 inhabitants, it counts 90,000 Catholics, distributed among 71 parishes. It also has 10 chapels, 19 missions and 5 stations. The diocesan priests number 121, the regulars 31; the diocese counts 5 male religious communities and 13 female ones, a major seminary (St. Benedict) at Brighton and Cupertino College at Eaton Rapids; furthermore Nazareth College, 20 diocesan and parochial high schools and 41 parochial schools; in 1949 there were 1,470 conversions.

The diocese was created by Pope Pius XI with the apostolic constitution Ecclesiarum in orbe of 22 May 1937, by dismemberment of the diocese of Detroit, to which on the same date, with the apostolic constitution Ad aeternam Christifidium salutem, it was assigned as a suffragan.

The Cathedral is dedicated to Mary Most Holy.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: AAS, 29 (1937), pp. 389-93; The official catholic directory 1950, New York 1950, pp. 407-409.

Enrico Josi

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