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Dubina was the first Czech settlement in Texas and dates from 1856. It is located 90 miles west of Houston and 104 miles east of San Antonio . Most of the town since 2003 has been designated as the Dubina Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places .
Oaks is located on Texas State Highway 72, 21 mi (34 km) northwest of Beeville, [2] and 4 mi (6.4 km) southwest of Pawnee in northwestern Bee County. [3] Education
The Texas Panhandle was under several different Catholic jurisdictions before the creation of the Diocese of Amarillo: Prefecture Apostolic of Texas (1841 to 1847) Vicariate Apostolic of Texas (1847 to 1874) Diocese of Galveston (1874 to 1914) Dioceses of Dallas and San Antonio (1914 to 1926)
The Texas Catholic Church comprises 15 Latin Church dioceses and one personal ordinariate led by a bishop. The 15 Latin dioceses are divided into two ecclesiastical provinces . Each province has a metropolitan archdiocese led by an archbishop , and six, Galveston-Houston, or seven, San Antonio, suffragan dioceses.
Concho County marker. Concho County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas.At the 2020 census, the population was 3,303. [1] Its county seat is Paint Rock. [2]
After Ledvina retired for health reasons in 1949, Garriga automatically succeeded him as bishop of Corpus Christi. He was the first Texas native to be named bishop of a Texas diocese. [9] During his 16-year tenure, Garriga founded a minor seminary in 1960 and established several parochial schools. [10] Garriga died in 1965.
Paint Rock is a town in and the county seat of Concho County, Texas, United States. [4] The population was 237 at the 2020 census. The town's name comes from Native American pictographs painted on cliffs overlooking the nearby Concho River. These pictographs cover nearly half a mile upstream from the town of Paint Rock.
Oakville is an unincorporated community in northeastern Live Oak County, Texas, United States. It lies along Interstate 37 northeast of the city of George West, the county seat of Live Oak County. [1] Its elevation is 171 feet (52 m). [2] Although Oakville is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 78060. [3]