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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fall River |
 | | DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER (RIVERORMENSIS), U.S.A. A suffragan see of the Province of Boston; comprises the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, with the towns of Marion, Mattapoisett and Wareham in Plymouth county, Massachusetts, an area of 1194 square miles. |
 | | It was created 12 March, 1904, by a division of the Diocese of Providence, which had included the entire State of Rhode Island and a portion of south-eastern Massachusetts, and has the distinction of being the first diocese erected by Pope Pius X. |
 | | A large hospital, St. Ann's, at Fall River, is presided over by the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation. |
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