Enciclopedia Cattolica

Caruaru, Diocese of

CARUARÙ, DIOCESI DI

Volume III · p. 562 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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

CARUARÚ, DIOCESE OF. — A city and diocese in Brazil, in the State of Pernambuco, suffragan of Olinda and Recife, erected by Pope Pius XII on 7 August 1948 with the apostolic constitution Quae maiori, detaching from the archdiocese of Olinda and Recife eleven parishes and one parish from the diocese of Nazareth.

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(by Dr. R. Deprahart) CARTHAGE — Preparatory cartoon for a painting by Niccolò Alunno (15th cent.). Studies of angels with a saint’s head superimposed, pierced through — Berlin, museum.
and part of the parish of Riacho das Almas of the diocese of Pesqueria.

The new diocese has its see at C.; the church of Our Lady of Sorrows has been raised to the status of cathedral. Plans are under way for the establishment of a small seminary and for the sending of one or two students to the Pontifical Brazilian College in Rome.

BIBL.: AAS. 41 (1949), pp. 311-13. Enrico Josi
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