SACRAMENTO, Diocese of. - Diocese and city in the State of California (U.S.A.); suffragan of San Francisco.

It covers a territory of 53,400 sq. miles with a total population of 778,625 inhabitants, of whom 202,475 are Catholics; 158 priests, of whom 19 are religious from 7 different congregations, exercise the sacred ministry in the 70 parishes, 21 chapels and 72 missions. There are furthermore 13 female congregations with 274 sisters, 30 seminarians, 3 orphanages, 5 hospitals. The diocese of S. was formed from the apostolic vicariate of Marysville. The apostolic vicariate of Marysville was erected in 1861 with only 4 priests. The first Catholics settled in the mining regions. The first apostolic vicar was Msgr. Eugene O'Connell, a native of Ireland, and consecrated bishop of Flaviopolis in Dublin on 3 February 1861. Thanks to his work, in 1866 the apostolic vicariate counted 17 priests and 35 churches.

On 20 March 1868, Pius IX elevated the vicariate to a diocese under the name of Grass Valley; Leo XIII changed its boundaries on 16 May 1886 and the see was transferred to S.

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BIBL.: J. H. Ellis, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XIII, pp. 294-95; J. G. Shea, History of the Catholic Church in the United States, IV, New York 1866-93, p. 713 sq.; The Official Catholic Directory, ibid. 1950, pp. 510-13.

Gastone Carriere

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