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Two years later a larger brick church was built. It became the Pro-Cathedral when Bishop Martin Marty, who was Vicar Apostolic of the Dakota Territory, arrived in Sioux Falls in 1889. On November 12, of the same year Pope Leo XIII established the Diocese of Sioux Falls, [5] and St. Michael's become the cathedral for the new diocese.
In 1880, Marty persuaded Benedictine sisters from Missouri to assist him in ministering at Fort Yates, a center of the Yankton Lakota people [7] The first Catholic church in Sioux Falls, St. Michael's, was dedicated in 1881. It later became the first cathedral of the Diocese of Sioux Falls.
St. Agnes Church (Utica, South Dakota) St. Ann's Catholic Church of Badus; St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church (Hoven, South Dakota) Cathedral of Saint Joseph (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) St. Mary's Catholic Church (Salem, South Dakota) St. Peter's Catholic Church (Jefferson, South Dakota) St. Scholastica Catholic Church and Rectory
Different views on the so-called "Americanization" of the Catholic Church in the United States split the hierarchy in the 1890s. Ireland's insistence on Americanization led to the unfortunate circumstance of Ruthenian Catholic priest Alexis Toth and his congregation becoming Russian Orthodox. Ireland died on September 25, 1918.
In 1863, the first Catholic church in Rochester, St. John the Evangelist, was opened. [6] In 1877, Coadjutor Bishop John Ireland of Saint Paul purchased over 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) of land in the Winona area. Ireland then recruited poor Catholic Irish and German farmers to buy the land and settle there, giving them favorable repayment terms. [3]
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A church was completed in 1872 and dedicated by Bishop Thomas Grace of St. Paul. As the parish grew, a larger church building was completed in 1905. Three schools, a grade school, a girls' high school and a boys' high school opened in 1913. Plans for the present church were completed by New Ulm architect Edward F. Wirtz, and construction began ...
On January 13, 1994, John Paul II named Carlson as coadjutor bishop of Sioux Falls. He succeeded Bishop Paul Dudley as bishop when the latter retired on March 21, 1995. Carlson served as chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Vocations from 1992 to 1994, and of the Subcommittee on Youth from 1993 to 1996.