February 11, 1947

Albert L. Fletcher became the bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock. Fletcher was the first native Arkansan ever to be raised to the rank of bishop within the American Catholic episcopacy, and he oversaw Arkansas Catholicism during an era of unprecedented growth and upheaval.

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