SPOKANE, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the State of Washington (United States). The diocese of S. (Spokanensis) was erected by Pope Pius X on 17 Dec. 1913 by detachment from Seattle and is located in the eastern part of Seattle; it covers an area of 30,192 square miles.

The tribe of the native Spokane was evangelized by Father De Smet and his successors, especially by Fr. G. B. Cataldo (v.), considered the founder of the city of S., around 1841, so that a large part of the tribe is Catholic.

The total population of the diocese (1950 census) is 487,172 inhabitants, of whom 49,972 [1951] are Catholics. There are 148 diocesan priests (76 religious: Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits), 50 parishes, 17 chapels, 55 missions, 9 female congregations (412 nuns), 41 seminarians, 1 scholastic (112 Jesuits), the University (Gonzaga University College of Arts, directed by the Jesuits), 1 college, 2 orphanages, and 7 hospitals.

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BIBL.: The Official Catholic Directory 1950, New York 1950, pp. 558-60; AAS, 6 [1944], p. 187; Th. Boemer, The Catholic Church in the United States, St. Louis-London 1950, p. 338 ff.

Gastone Carrière

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