TOLEDO IN AMERICA, DIOCESE OF. - Diocese and city in the ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati (U.S.A.).

The diocese was created by Pope Pius X on 15 April 1910, by detachment from that of Cleveland. The territory counted 125,000 Catholics, whereas today there are 210,000 out of a total population of 1,116,819 souls scattered over a territory of 8,222 miles. The Catholics were grouped especially in T., and at the time of the creation of the diocese there were 20 parishes in the city. Today in the diocese of T. (Toletana in America) there are 256 diocesan priests and 66 religious in 6 different communities, 155 parishes, 24 chapels, 5 communities of women religious (1,525 nuns), 52 seminarians, 2 scholasticates, 1 college, 1 orphanage and 5 hospitals.

The country, situated on the shores of Lake Erie, lay on the route of the great explorers of the 17th century. The priest Edmund Burke, vicar general for "Haut Canada", settled in 1794 at Monroe (today Frenchtown), Michigan. After 1830 there were some Catholic groups and a priest residing at S. Maria, Tiffin.

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BIBL.: AAS, 2 (1910), p. 331; Th. Boemer, The Cath. Church in the Un. States, London-St. Louis 1950, p. 337; The Official Cath. Directory 1951, New York 1951, pp. 589-93; J. T. O'Connell, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XIV, p. 760; Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 425.

Gastone Carrière

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