 In 1890 the Catholic population of the area of the Brazos and Trinity rivers had grown large enough that Pope Leo XIII established the Diocese of Dallas.As early as 1870 Claude Marie Dubuis, the second bishop of the Diocese of Galveston (which diocese encompassed all of Texas at that time), had begun sending Father Vincent Perrier twice a year to visit Fort Worth.At that time several Catholic families were meeting in the Carrico home.