It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. The mother church of the diocese is Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa. The bishop as of is David Konderla. The Diocese of Tulsa covers 26, square miles 68, km 2 over 31 counties in eastern Oklahoma β including the most populous county, Tulsa County. The diocese has 78 parishes including mission churches [ 1 ] The official news and information publication of the diocese is The Eastern Oklahoma Catholic.
After the Louisiana Purchase in , it became the plan of the U. The eastern part of present-day Oklahoma was part of this loosely defined region known as the Indian Territory. Louis in They established St Gregory's Abbey in Shawnee in The first parish in Tulsa, Holy Family, opened in The Tulsa area would remain part of this diocese for the next 42 years.
The pope named Monsignor Bernard Ganter as the first bishop of Tulsa. The next bishop of Tulsa was Reverend Eusebius J.
Beltran was appointed archbishop of Oklahoma City in Slattery served for 23 years before retiring in A year-old girl and her parents reported to the diocese in that she had been sexually molested that year by Reverend John Jangam, a visiting priest from India.
It was stated that on separate occasions, Jangram touched her inappropriately. After receiving the allegations, the diocese sent Jangam back to India. In , the girl publicly revealed her story. John the Evangelist Church in McAlester after several parents complained about his inappropriate behavior with their children. In , a diocesan employee had reported seeing Lewis give a backrub to a boy in Lewis' bedroom.
