Tags: Clerical Administrative Region, Diocese.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis (Latin: Dioecesis Memphitana in Tennesia) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Tennessee. It was founded on June 20 1970 when Pope Paul VI removed the counties in the state west of the Tennessee River from the Diocese of Nashville which prior to that time encompassed the entire state.The diocese is broken into two deaneries the Memphis Deanery comprising Shelby County and the Jackson Deanery which encompassed the other 20 counties in the diocese.
