RAPID CITY, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the State of South Dakota (U. S. A.). Suffragan of St. Paul.

It covers a territory of 43,000 square miles with a total population (1950 census) of 155,969 inhabitants. There are 113 priests, of whom 28 are religious (Benedictines, Jesuits, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart), 82 parishes, 8 chapels, 81 missions, 49 stations, 6 congregations of women with 181 religious, 16 seminarians and 5 hospitals. The diocese of R. C. was first erected on 4 Aug. 1902 under the name of diocese of Lead by the dismemberment of the apostolic vicariate of Nebraska. The latter diocese was erected in 1859 for Nebraska, Dakota and Idaho. In 1902 the territory had only 6,000 Catholics, who have now become 43,360. Pius XI, with the constitution Apostolicis litteris of 1 Aug. 1930, transferred the diocese to R. C.

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BIBL.: J. G. Shea, History of the Catholic Church in the United States, IV, New York 1892, p. 654 ff.; T. F. Mechan, Lead, in Cath. Enc., IX, p. 98; AAS, 23 (1931), pp. 113-14; The Official Catholic Directory, New York 1930, pp. 492-94.

Gastone Carrière

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