STEUBENVILLE, DIOCESE OF
Diocese and city in the State of Ohio, U.S.A.
The diocese covers an area of 5913 square miles, with a total population (1950 census) of 485,735, of whom 60,245 are Catholic. There are 106 diocesan priests (13 religious: Regular Third Order of St. Francis), 66 parishes, 2 chapels, 14 missions, 14 women’s congregations (250 nuns), 1 seminary (34 seminarians), 1 college, and 2 hospitals.
The ecclesiastical province of Denver was established in 1942, that of Indianapolis in 1944, the diocese of Youngstown was erected in 1943, and that of Steubenville in 1944. In 1945 the province of Omaha was also created, the diocese of Madison in 1946, and the diocese of Austin in 1947, and in 1948 the diocese of Joliette.
With the apostolic constitution *Diocesium in orbe catholico*, Pius XII dismembered Steubenville from the diocese of Columbus and made it a suffragan of Cincinnati.