It comprises the counties of Columbia, Dane, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, Lafayette, Marquette, Roch, Sauk, all in the State of Wisconsin, for a total area of 8,070 square miles. Out of a population of 442,182 inhabitants there are 88,626 Catholics.
It has 131 parishes, served by 140 diocesan priests and 33 regulars; 3 seminaries and religious scholasticates; 6 male religious communities and 69 female; 1 college, 7 diocesan and parochial high schools, 54 parochial schools; in 1949 there were 672 conversions.
The diocese was created by Pope Pius XII with the apostolic constitution Ad animarum bonum of Dec. 22, 1945, by dismemberment from the dioceses of Milwaukee and La Crosse, erecting as cathedral the church dedicated to St. Raphael the Archangel. The diocese is a suffragan of Milwaukee.
Bibliography2 worksAAS, 38 (1946), pp. 340-42; The official catholic directory 1950, New York 1950, pp. 417-19.
Josi, Enrico. “Madison, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, coll. 1794–1795. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/madison-diocesi-di.
MLA
Josi, Enrico. “Madison, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 1794–1795. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/madison-diocesi-di.
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@incollection{ec7_madison_diocesi_di,
author = {Josi, Enrico},
title = {Madison, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {1794--1795},
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/madison-diocesi-di}
}
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