In July 1918, Pope Benedict XV named Monsignor Terrence G. Brady of the Archdiocese of Dubuque as the next bishop of Baker City.

[13][14] With only one parochial school in the diocese at the beginning of his tenure, McGrath mandated that the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine be established in every parish and mission.

[19] He also scheduled regular masses in Spanish, established a program to assist undocumented immigrants to apply for citizenship, and ordained the first class of permanent deacons for the diocese.

This move was challenged in court, with the plaintiffs claiming that Vasa was attempting to shield the diocese from multi-million dollar judgements in sexual abuse settlements.

[21] In a 2006 column, Vasa implied that Catholics who supported abortion rights for women were guilty of a so-called heresy of murder.

[22] Vasa stated in 2010 that St. Charles Medical Center in Bend had "gradually moved away" from the church's ethical directives and could no longer be called Catholic.

As a result, Vasa would not allow priests to celebrate mass in the hospital chapel and St. Charles was forced to return all Catholic religious items to the diocese.

In April 2013, Cary asked Reverend James Radloff to resign as pastor of his parish in Bend and take a posting in a small town in rural Oregon.

[25] By February 2002, four men were suing the diocese, stating that they had been sexually abused as boys by Reverend David Hazen during the 1970s and earlier.

[28] In 2011, the diocese was sued by the family of two five-year-old girls who had been sexually molested by a 12-year-old boy at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Bend.

[30] Elden Francis Curtiss, appointed Bishop of Helena in 1976 and later Archbishop of Omaha The Diocese of Baker operates four schools with an approximate enrollment of 500 students.