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Descendants of the Diocese of Bardstown and Territories Served by Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, S.S. (1808)

(Today, 44 dioceses in 10 states)

ARCH(DIOCESE)	CREATED	METROPOLITAN SEE
Louisville Diocese of Bardstown Titular Diocese of Bardstown Covington Owensboro Lexington Nashville Memphis Knoxville	February 13, 1841 April 8, 1808 February 2, 1995 July 29, 1853 December 9, 1937 March 2, 1988 July 28, 1837 January 1, 1971 September 8, 1988	December 10, 1937
Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Toledo Youngstown Steubenville	June 19, 1821 April 23, 1847 March 3, 1868 April 15, 1910 May 15, 1943 March 16, 1945	July 19, 1850
Detroit Marquette Grand Rapids Lansing Saginaw Gaylord Kalamazoo	March 8, 1833 July 29, 1853 May 19, 1882 May 22, 1937 February 26, 1938 July 20, 1971 July 21, 1971	August 3, 1937
Milwaukee Green Bay Lacrosse Superior Madison	November 28, 1843 March 3, 1868 March 3, 1868 May 3, 1905 February 22, 1946	February 12, 1875
Indianapolis (Vincennes) Fort Wayne-South Bend Lafayette Evansville Gary	May 6, 1834 September 22, 1857 October 21, 1944 November 11, 1944 December 17, 1956	December 19, 1944
Dubuque Davenport Sioux City Des Moines	July 28, 1837 May 8, 1881 January 15, 1902 August 12, 1911	June 15, 1893
Chicago Springfield (Quincy/Alton) Peoria Belleville Rockford Joliet Little Rock	November 28, 1843 July 29, 1853 May 1, 1877 January 7, 1887 September 23, 1908 October 11, 1948 November 28, 1843	September 10, 1880
St. Louis St. Joseph Kansas City Combined: Jefferson City Springfield-Cape Girardeau Kansas City-St. Joseph	July 18, 1826 March 3, 1868 September 10, 1880 August 29, 1956 July 2, 1956 August 24, 1956 August 29, 1956	July 20, 1847

Erection of the Diocese of Bardstown

Pope Pius VII [April 8, 1808] erected Bardstown into an Episcopal seat and appointed Rev. Benedict Joseph Flaget, a Sulpician, as its first bishop. The new diocese embraced the States of Kentucky (1792) and Tennessee (1796) and its bishop was given spiritual jurisdiction, not only over his own diocese proper, but also, until other dioceses might be prudently formed, over the whole northwestern territory (states and territories) of the United States lying between 35 north latitude and the Great Northern Lakes, between the states bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, thus including the present states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, about half of Arkansas, Wisconsin and Iowa.

-Catholic Encyclopedia 1910 by Rev. P. M. J. Rock

Last Published: January 23, 2008 5:07 PM

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