Catholic Diocese of Dallas
2021-04-30
The Catholic Diocese of Dallas, initially part of the Diocese of Galveston. It covered all the northern piece of the state; its southernmost counties, from west to east, Dawson, Smith, were Yoakum, Borden, Mitchell, Coke, Coleman, Brown, Terry, Runnels, Mills, Bosque, Hill, Hamilton, Navarro, Henderson, Rusk, and Panola. The Diocese is driven by Bishop Edward J. Burns, the eighth bishop of the diocese. Bishop Brennan's residency the Diocese of Dallas comprised 25 churches with resident pastors, nineteen mission churches, four hospitals, and nine academies with a consolidated enlistment of around 1,500 students. The diocese served a Catholic populace of around 20,000, around 9,000 of whom had been brought into the world in America. The Diocese of Dallas as of now encompasses a space of 7,523 square miles stretched across Dallas, Collin, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, and Rockwall Counties. Its 69 parishes and five missions serve roughly 1.2 million Catholics and a bigger North Texas people group of in excess of 4,000,000 individuals. From homelessness to hunger, from victims of abuse to refugees of war and oppression, from the stinging to the lost, Catholic Diocese assume a basic part in of needs of these weak populations.