[3] Bishop Eugene O’Connell of Grass Valley started sending more priests to Nevada to establish missions and build churches.

In 1915, Archbishop James J. Keane wrote a letter to the Apostolic Delegate to the United States, Diomede Falconio, advocating a bishop for Nevada, citing the difficulties of the California diocese in providing coverage there.

[3] While traveling west through Nevada by train during the 1920s, Cardinal George Mundelein, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, asked about which bishop was in charge of the state.

[8] During World War II, he created USO centers for soldiers on leave, African-American wartime workers and residents in Boulder City.

The second bishop of Reno was Robert Dwyer of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, named by Pope Pius XII in 1952.

In 2009, Calvo was named in a lawsuit by Richard DeMolen, the former pastor of Our Lady of Tahoe Catholic Parish in Zephyr Cove, Nevada.

[12] Nick Nicosia, former lay administrator of St. Mary's in the Mountains church in Virginia City, sued the diocese in 2010 over his termination from this job.

Nicosia claimed the diocese fired him because he objected to a donation from the former owner of Mustang Ranch, a legal brothel in Sparks, to a church restoration project.

The developmentally disabled victim was terminally ill. A nurse discovered Boyle exposing himself to the boy at Riverside Hospital for Skilled Care.

[19] In 2010, Bishop Calvo placed Reverend Tom Cronin, a priest at St. Mary's in the Mountains Parish in Virginia City, on leave due to a sexual abuse allegation from Missouri.

[20] The diocese in 2019 published a list of 12 clergy with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors, dating back 80 years.

[22] Thomas Joseph Connolly, appointed Bishop of Baker in 1971 See List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno