Diocese of Great Falls-Billings
Magnocataracten(sis)-Billingen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Great Falls, Montana, United States
The Diocese of Great Falls-Billings covers eastern Montana and was erected in 1904. It maintains a cathedral in Great Falls and a co-cathedral in Billings, and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1904
- Latin
- Magnocataracten(sis)-Billingen(sis)
- Patron
- St. Matthias the Apostle and St. Pius X
- Annuario code
- 001001522
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 51,629
- Population
- 411,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 12.6%
- Priests
- 63
- Catholics per priest
- 820
- Extent
- 241,276 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Jeffrey M. Fleming
- Born
- 10 February 1966
- Birthplace
- Billings
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Ann's Cathedral stands in Great Falls, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is St. Patrick's Co-Cathedral, Billings.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Portland in Oregon
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Portland in OregonPortland
- Diocese of BakerBaker
- Diocese of HelenaHelena
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Established in 1904, the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings (Latin: Dioecesis Magnocataractensis-Billingensis) serves eastern Montana in the United States; it took its present name, the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, in 1980. Unusually, the diocese possesses two cathedrals: St Ann's Cathedral in Great Falls, dedicated in 1907, and St Patrick's Co-Cathedral in Billings, dedicated in 1908. Jeffrey Fleming serves as bishop.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.