Enciclopedia Cattolica

Camagüey, Diocese of

CAMAGÜEY, DIOCESI DI

Volume III · p. 264 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CAMAGÜEY, DIOCESE of. — City in the province of C. on the island of Cuba, and a suffragan diocese of Santiago di Cuba.

It comprises the civil province of C. and has an area of 26,098 sq km. Catholics number 500,000 out of a population of 530,000; there are 54 churches, 16 parishes, with 21 diocesan priests and 33 religious priests. The diocese was erected in 1912 through the division of Santiago di Cuba and Havana.

BIBL.: AAS. 5 (1913), p. 94; Anon., s. V. in Cath. Enc., XVI, p. 134; Anon., s. V. ibid., suppl. I, p. 144; G. Caraci,

Cuba, in Enc. Ital., XII, p. 494; The Official Catholic Directory, 1947, New York 1947, 4th part, p. 110. Corrado Morin

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