Charles Van Quickenborne, a Jesuit priest, traveled from St. Louis, Missouri, to minister to Osage Nation people in the Cabin Creek area.

Over the next several decades, missionary priests from Arkansas would make periodic trips into the territory to visit the Native American peoples.

In 1884, Robot opened Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish at Lehigh, the second Catholic church in Indian Territory.

[9] During his nine-year administration, McGuinness saw the Catholic population in the state grow by almost 40 percent and received 1,242 adult converts in 1957 alone.

They accused Reed of following "un-Catholic" policies and participating in a "worldwide atheistic conspiracy for world domination" led by communists.

Pope Paul VI replaced Reed with Auxiliary Bishop John R. Quinn from the Diocese of San Diego in 1971.

The second archbishop of Oklahoma City was Bishop Charles Salatka from the Diocese of Marquette, appointed by Paul VI in 1977.

[16] He founded the Office of Hispanic Ministry in the 1970s and learned to speak Spanish at age 68 so that he could celebrate mass in that language.

In October 1981, Salatka celebrated a funeral mass in Oklahoma City for Stanley Rother, a priest from the diocese.

Pope John Paul II named Bishop Eusebius J. Beltran of Tulsa as archbishop of Oklahoma City in 1992.

Bishop Paul Coakley of the Diocese of Salina became the next archbishop of Oklahoma City, named by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.

[22] Rapp had previously been accused of sexually abusing children at a Catholic junior high school in Jackson, Michigan, in the 1980s.

[22] In 2018, the archdiocese announced that a laicized priest, Ben Zoeller, had been performing volunteer work at Sacred Heart Parish in Oklahoma City.

[23] The archdiocese in October 2019 released an investigative report by an outside law firm on allegations of sexual abuse of minors by archdiocesan clergy.

The plaintiffs said that the archdiocese and Mount Saint Mary “fostered and allowed a rape culture” and “tolerated sexual harassment and assault” by male staff members and students.

[25] Theophile Meerschaert (1891–1905), appointed Bishop of Oklahoma The official news and information publication of the diocese is the Sooner Catholic.

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