Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas

Diocese of Dallas Dioecesis Dallasensis
The diocesan coat of arms
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, and Rockwall Counties
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San Antonio
Statistics
Area	7,523 sq mi (19,480 km2)
Population - Catholics	955,298 (27.5%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	July 15, 1890
Cathedral	Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Edward J. Burns
Metropolitan Archbishop	Gustavo Garcia-Siller Archbishop of San Antonio
Auxiliary Bishops	J. Gregory Kelly
Emeritus Bishops	Charles Victor Grahmann, Kevin Joseph Farrell
Map
Website
www.cathdal.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas (Latin: Dioecesis Dallasensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Texas. It was founded on July 15, 1890, by Pope Leo XIII. The diocese's cathedral is the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe. As of May 2008, the diocese had more than one million Catholics in 80 parishes served by 208 priests, 160 deacons, 142 sisters, and seven brothers. Its territory comprises nine counties in North Texas: Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, and Rockwall. The diocese is a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio. On December 13, 2016, Pope Francis nominated Juneau Bishop Edward J. Burns to serve as the new bishop of the Diocese of Dallas.

The Catholic history of Dallas began long before the formal creation of the diocese. The city of Dallas was settled by people from Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana, as well as foreign immigrants and African-Americans. The Catholic population, however, was not considerable: as late as 1868 there was only one Catholic family living in the area. The members of this family were ministered to by priests from an Irish Catholic settlement, St. Paul, in Collin County. A certain Father Joseph Martinere, later a domestic prelate and vicar general of the diocese, often made journeys of over hundreds of miles through swamp and forest to reach the area.