Comprises northeast Texas north of Shelby, Nacogdoches, Cherokee, Anderson, Freestone, Limestone, McLennan, Coryell, and Lampasas counties and the Colorado River, and east of Coke, Nolan, Fisher, Stonewall, King, Cottle, and Childress counties; area, 52,850 square miles; established, 1890; suffragan of New Orleans. Father Joseph Martinere (later vicar-general) ministered there for many years before the diocese was established. Bishops: Thomas F. Brennan (1891-1892), Edward J. Dunne (1893-1910), Joseph P. Lynch (1911).
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