BATHURST, Diocese of. - In the province of New Brunswick, in Canada, suffragan of Moncton. Erected on 8 May 1860 at Chatham as a suffragan of Halifax, this diocese lost on 22 Feb. 1936 the county of Kent, which was taken from it to constitute the new metropolitan see of Moncton. On 13 March 1938 a decree of the S. Congregazione concittoriale changed the residence from Chatham to that of B.

The present diocese comprises the north of New Brunswick, that is, the counties of Gloucester, Madawaska, Northumberland, Ristigouche and Victoria. Over an area of 7,350 sq. km., it numbers 121,473 inhabitants, of whom 82,776 are Catholics; 85 parishes, with 103 diocesan priests and 18 regulars (1948).

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BIBL.: I. C. Mac Millan, A history of the Church in Prince Edward Island, Quebec 1905; L. O. Leary, Chatham, Diocese of, in The Cath. Enc., III, p. 642; AAS, 28 (1936), pp. 285-89 and 30 (1938), p. 227 ff.; Le Canada ecclésiastique, Montréal 1939, pp. 453-61; The Official catholic directory, part 3, New York 1947, pp. 75-76 ff.

Corrado Morin

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