CHARLOTTETOWN, DIOCESE OF. - In Canada. The capital of the smallest province of Canada (Prince Edward Island), C. is a suffragan of Halifax in Nova Scotia. Its territory comprises the whole of Prince Edward Island (5656 sq. km.) and one county of the province of Québec, namely the Magdalen Islands. In 1947, out of 51,107 inhabitants, there were 46,426 Catholics under the direction of 79 diocesan priests and 5 religious, with 47 parishes, 12 missions with churches, 1 college, 10 academies for girls and 1 for boys, 3 hospitals, 1 orphanage.
This territory, which the Franciscans called Ile-St-Jean, began to be colonized by Europeans in 1719, when this and other islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence were granted by France to the count of Saint-Pierre. From that time the Sulpicians (1721-23), the Franciscans (1724) and secular priests spread Catholicism there. But the plundering of the settlements and the deportation of the inhabitants carried out by the English in 1758 left the island without resident priests until 1772, when the emigration of Scottish Catholics led by the priest G. Macdonald began. The colony prospered, and in 1819 the S. Congregation of Propaganda Fide made it an apostolic vicariate suffragan of Québec.
It comprised the territory of the present province of New Brunswick, and was erected as a diocese on 11 Aug. 1829 with the episcopal see at C. In Sept. 1842 the territory of the civil province of New Brunswick was detached to form the diocese of St-Jean; in May 1852 Halifax was elevated to a metropolitan see and C. became its suffragan together with the diocese of Antigonish.
Bibliography4 worksThe Pontification of Propaganda Fide, IV, Rome 1891, p. 722; J. C. Macmillan, The Early History of the Catholic Church in Prince Edward Isla
BIBL.:The Pontification of Propaganda Fide, IV, Rome 1891, p. 722; J. C. Macmillan, The Early History of the Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island, Québec 1905; J. C. Macmillan, s. v. in Cath. Enc., III, pp. 632-33; id., Le Canada ecclésiastique, 1949, Montréal 1949, pp. 462-66.
Morin, Corrado. “Charlottetown, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 1391–1392. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/charlottetown-diocesi-di.
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Morin, Corrado. “Charlottetown, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1391–1392. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/charlottetown-diocesi-di.
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@incollection{ec3_charlottetown_diocesi_di,
author = {Morin, Corrado},
title = {Charlottetown, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1391--1392},
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/charlottetown-diocesi-di}
}
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