Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. II, 1949 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Beira, Diocese of

BEIRA, DIOCESI DI

By Giovanni Meseguer

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BEIRA, Diocese of. - In Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, with a port on the estuary of the Buzi River. It has about 25,000 inhabitants and is the principal maritime outlet of Southern Rhodesia. It was erected as a diocese on Sept. 4, 1940, in accordance with the missionary agreement between the Holy See and Portugal (May 7, 1940), and it comprises the civil districts of B., Tete and Quelimane (province of Zambesia). A suffragan of Lourenço Marques, it has an area of 360,643 sq km and a Catholic population of 45,032 out of a total of 1,922,596.

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BIBL.: AAS, 32 (1940), p. 238; 33 (1941), p. 16. Giovanni Meseguer

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By Giovanni Meseguer

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 1150.

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Meseguer, Giovanni. “Beira, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1150. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/beira-diocesi-di.

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Meseguer, Giovanni. “Beira, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1150. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/beira-diocesi-di.

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@incollection{ec2_beira_diocesi_di,
  author    = {Meseguer, Giovanni},
  title     = {Beira, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {1150},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/beira-diocesi-di}
}

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