STEUBENVILLE, DIOCESE OF. - Diocese and city in the State of Ohio, U.S.A.

The diocese covers an area of 5,913 square miles with a total population (1950 census) of 485,735 inhabitants, of whom 60,245 are Catholics. There are 106 diocesan priests (13 religious: Third Order Regular of St. Francis), 66 parishes, 2 chapels, 14 missions, 14 congregations of women (250 nuns), 1 seminary (34 seminarians), 1 college, 2 hospitals.

The ecclesiastical province of Denver was established in 1942, that of Indianapolis in 1944, the diocese of Youngstown was erected in 1943, that of S. in 1944. In 1945 the province of Omaha was also created, the diocese of Madison, and in 1947 the diocese of Austin, in 1948 the diocese of Joliette.

With the apostolic constitution Dioecesium in orbe catholico, Pius XII detached S. from the diocese of Columbus and made it a suffragan of Cincinnati.

Bibliography4 works

BIBL.: The Official Catholic Directory 1950, New York 1950, pp. 570-71; Ann. Pont., 1951, p. 387; AAS, 37 (1945), pp. 153-58; Th. Boemer, The Catholic Church in the U. S., St. Louis-London 1950, p. 385 add.

Gastone Carrière

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