Cities

Gallup

United States

Citation Formats

General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "Gallup." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/cities/gallup-new-mexico.

APA Style

Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Gallup. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/cities/gallup-new-mexico

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-gallup,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Gallup},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/cities/gallup-new-mexico},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Gallup is a city in northwestern New Mexico, near the Arizona border, and the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup.

Facts

Origins

Founded

Settled in 1880 as a stagecoach stop and construction headquarters of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, named for David Gallup, the paymaster whose office workers said they were going to Gallup to collect their wages. 1

Attributions

Traditionthe subject's own account

Roman Catholic Christianity, as the seat of the Diocese of Gallup, erected on 16 December 1939 by Pope Pius XII specifically to serve the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and other Native peoples of the region. 2

Traditions

Sacred and Liturgical Languagesthe subject's own account

English in ordinary parish worship, with Latin preserved as the historic liturgical language of the Roman Rite alongside the vernacular. 3

Cross-Tradition Connections