November 1, 1700

French Jesuit priest Father Jacques Gravier celebrated the first Catholic mass in Arkansas along the Mississippi River at a Quapaw Indian village. The Diocese of Little Rock, which encompasses all of the state of Arkansas, was established in 1843.

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