Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VI, 1951 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Granada, Diocese of

GRANADA, DIOCESI DI

By Enrico Josi

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GRANADA, Diocese of. - Diocese, with a city of the same name, in Nicaragua, in Central America. It has an area of 29,500 sq km, with 300,000 inhabitants, of whom 299,000 are Catholics; it has 31 parishes, with 24 diocesan priests and 24 religious, a seminary, 4 male religious communities and 4 female ones (1949).

The diocese was created by decree of the Sacred Congregation Consistorial of 2 Dec. 1913 by dismemberment of the diocese of Guatemala; the four civil provinces of G., Riva, Chontales and San Juan del Norte were assigned to it; it is a suffragan of Managua. The first bishop was Msgr. José Candida Pinol y Batres.

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BIBL.: AAS, V (1913), pp. 548-49; Cath. Enc., Supplemento, p. 346.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 994.

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Josi, Enrico. “Granada, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 994. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/granada-diocesi-di.

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Josi, Enrico. “Granada, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 994. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/granada-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Josi, Enrico},
  title     = {Granada, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VI},
  pages     = {994},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/granada-diocesi-di}
}

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