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

Breda, Diocese of

BREDA, DIOCESI DI

By Cesario van Hulst

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BREDA - Church dedicated to the Virgin (1400-1540), now Protestant.

BREDA, Diocese of. - In Holland, suffragan of Utrecht. It occupies the western part of the civil province of North Brabant and the southern part of the civil province of Zeeland. Almost the entire territory of the present diocese belonged in the Middle Ages to the diocese of Liège, but with the new division of the dioceses of the Netherlands in 1559, it was subjected to the diocese of Antwerp; from 1798 it was administered by two vicars general, from 1803 by an apostolic vicar until 1853, when B. was erected as a diocese. Diocesan seminaries are at Ginneken (the minor one) and Hoeven (the major one). The diocese has 124 parishes with approximately 400,000 inhabitants, of whom 322,000 are Catholics; the secular priests number 430 and the regulars 325 (1948).

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BIBL.: De Katholieke Encyclopaedie, VI, pp. 181-82; XVII, p. 127; P. Polman, s. v. in DHG, X, coll. 484-61.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 51.

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van, Hulst Cesario. “Breda, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 51. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/breda-diocesi-di.

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van, Hulst Cesario. “Breda, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 51. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/breda-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {van, Hulst Cesario},
  title     = {Breda, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {51},
  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/breda-diocesi-di}
}

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