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Suffragan diocese Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

Diocese of Rapid City

Rapidopolitan(us)

The Diocese of Rapid City is a Latin Rite diocese covering western South Dakota. Established in 1902 as the Diocese of Lead and renamed in 1930, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and is led by Bishop Scott E. Bullock, appointed in 2024.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, in Rapid City, United States.

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Established
1902
Catholics
30,700
Priests
50
Territory
111,370 km²

Parishes and churches

85 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Bishop
Scott E. Bullock
Born
26 October 1963
Birthplace
Oak

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help stands in Rapid City, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

Western South Dakota, in the United States, is the territory of the Diocese of Rapid City (Latin: Dioecesis Rapidopolitana), a Catholic diocese suffragan to the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Its mother church is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Rapid City, and Scott E. Bullock is the bishop.