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 share
- 12.6%
- Priests
- 63
- Catholics per priest
- 820
- Extent
- 241,276 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
of the people living within its bounds
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.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].