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The Diocese of Little Rock (Latin: Dioecesis Petriculana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church for Arkansas in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. The Diocese of Little Rock was established on November 28, 1843.
Known as the Old French Church, it was dedicated by Bishop Mathias Loras of the Diocese of Dubuque, Iowa, in 1841. The Diocese of Little Rock was established by Pope Gregory XVI on November 28, 1843, with the Most Rev. Andrew Byrne as the first bishop. [3] Bishop Byrne established the first St. Andrew's Cathedral at Second and Center Streets in ...
St. Edwards Church (Little Rock, Arkansas) St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Brinkley, Arkansas) St. Joseph Catholic Church (Tontitown, Arkansas) St. Luke's Catholic Church (Warren, Arkansas) St. Mary's Catholic Church (Helena-West Helena, Arkansas) St. Mary's Catholic Church (Paragould, Arkansas) St. Richard's Catholic Church
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock (10 P) Pages in category "Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Anthony Basil Taylor (born April 24, 1954) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock in Arkansas since 2008. He was a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma from 1980 to 2008, interrupted by studies in New York at Fordham University.
Catholic priests began serving the area around DeValls Bluff in the 1870s, and St. Elizabeth's was canonically established as a parish of the Diocese of Little Rock in 1904. As large Catholic immigrant communities settled in the area in the early 20th century, mostly German and Austrian farmers, the parish outgrew its first church and had the ...
St. Joseph Catholic Church is a parish of the Catholic Church located in Tontitown, Arkansas, in the Diocese of Little Rock.The parish and the town were established by a group of Italian Americans led by Father Pietro Bandini, who settled in the area as miners and tenant farmers in the late 19th century.
Andrew J. Byrne (1802 – June 10, 1862) was an Irish-born American Catholic priest, who became the first bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock in Arkansas from 1844 until his death in 1862. Biography [ edit ]