OKLAHOMA CITY AND TULSA, Diocese of. - In the United States of America. The diocese comprises the State of Oklahoma and has (1950) a total population of 2,230,253 inhabitants, of whom 75,748 are Catholics. The clergy is composed of 124 diocesan priests and 93 religious from 15 different congregations. There are 108 parishes, 85 chapels, 79 missions, 22 female congregations, 2 seminaries and religious scholasticates, 1 diocesan seminary, 2 colleges, 1 orphanage, 12 hospitals.
The first whites came from the diocese of Mexico in 1540 with Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and 300 Spaniards. From 1611 onward Fr. Juan de Sales and other Spanish missionaries worked among the indigenous tribes, and in 1682 La Salle took possession of the country, of which Oklahoma is a part, in the name of Louis XIV. For this reason the territory was called Louisiana.
On 22 April 1889 the country, previously reserved for the indigenous peoples, was opened to the white population, and the territory was constituted as a State in 1907.
Before 1889 only a few religious exercised the apostolate there. Msgr. Isidore Rabat, O.S.B., a Frenchman, was appointed first apostolic prefect in 1877, and Catholicism owes much to this Benedictine. By a bull of 29 May 1891 the apostolic vicariate of the Indian territories was constituted, and Msgr. Theophilus Meerschaet, a Belgian, was elected bishop. On 23 Aug. 1905, Pius X created the diocese of Oklahoma and transferred the see from Guthrie to Oklahoma. Finally Pius XI modified the territory on 14 Oct. 1930 in order to create the diocese of Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Bibliography3 worksJ. G. Shea, History of the Catholic Church in the United States, IV, New York 1892, pp. 38, 263-66, 657-59; AAS, 22 (1930), p. 334; The Offi
BIBL.: J. G. Shea, History of the Catholic Church in the United States, IV, New York 1892, pp. 38, 263-66, 657-59; AAS, 22 (1930), p. 334; The Official Catholic Directory 1930, New York 1930, pp. 446-49.
Carrière, Gastone. “Oklahoma e Tulsa, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 91. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/oklahoma-e-tulsa-diocesi-di.
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Carrière, Gastone. “Oklahoma e Tulsa, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 91. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/oklahoma-e-tulsa-diocesi-di.
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author = {Carrière, Gastone},
title = {Oklahoma e Tulsa, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {91},
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publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/oklahoma-e-tulsa-diocesi-di}
}
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