The  Province  includes  its  original  limits  of  the  State  of
Wisconsin  and  the  Upper  Peninsula  of  Michigan.  When
erected,  the  suffragan  sees  were  the  Dioceses  of  Sault
Sainte  Marie-Marquette  (1857),  Green  Bay  (1868)  and  La
Crosse  (1868).  These  Dioceses,  with  the  See  of  Superior,
erected  in  1905,  are  the  present  suffragan  sees.
The  Metropolitan  Catholic  Almanac  and  Laity's  Directory,  Baltimore;
WiLTzius,  Catholic  Directory.  Milwaukee;  Sullivan,  The  Catholic  Church
in  Wisconsin,  Milwaukee,  1895;  Memoirs  of  Mihvaukee  County,  Madison,
1909 ;  Marty,  Johann  Martin  Henni,  erstcr  Bischof  und  Erzbischof  von
Milwaukee,  New  York,  1888;  Rainer,  A  Noble  Priest,  Joseph  Sahmann,
Founder  of  the  Salesianum,  tr.  from  the  German  by  Bf.rg,  Milwaukee,
1903;  Abbelen,  Die  Ehrzvuerdige  Mutter  Caroline  Fries,  St.  Louis,  1892;
Shea,  History  of  the  Catholic  Church,  etc.,  New  York,  1898;  Haug,
Geschichte  dcr  Katolischcn  Kirche  in  Wisconsin,  Mihvaukee,  1899;  CHR,
Vol.  ii,  pp.  26,  27.
I.  Diocese  of  Mihvaukee  (184.3)

In  1843  the  Fathers  of  the  Fifth  Provincial  Council  of
Baltimore  petitioned  the  Holy  See  to  erect  the  Diocese  of
Milwaukee,  and  on  November  24,  1843,  Pope  Gregory  XVI
granted  the  request.  The  Right  Reverend  John  M.  Henni,
D.  D.,  was  consecrated  as  first  Bishop  of  the  diocese  on
March  19,  1844.
When  erected  the  Diocese  had  as  territorial  limits  Wis-
consin Territory  (the  present  State  of  Wisconsin  and  that
part  of  the  present  State  of  Minnesota  which  lies  east  of
the  Mississippi  River).  At  present  the  Diocese  comprises
the  Counties  of  Columbia,  Dane,  Dodge,  Fond  du  Lac,
Green,  Green  Lake,  Jefferson,  Kenosha,  Marquette,
Ozaukee,  Racine,  Rock,  Sheboygan,  Walworth,  Washing-
ton, Waukesha,  in  the  State  of  Wisconsin;  an  area  of  9,321
square  miles.
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