HEARST, Diocese of. - City and diocese in Canada, located in the northern part of the province of Ontario. Its boundaries are: to the north the new apostolic vicariate of James Bay (50° 45' 23''); to the east the frontier and the province of Québec as far as Lake Abitibi; to the south the dioceses of Timmins and of Sault-Ste-Marie; to the west the diocese of St. Boniface. H. was established as an apostolic prefecture on 18 April 1918, and as an apostolic vicariate on 17 November 1920. Pope Pius XI, by the apostolic constitution Maxime interest of 3 December 1938, raised it to a diocese, as a suffragan of Ottawa. The Cathedral is dedicated to the B. V. M. Assumed into Heaven.
It has an area of about 42,000 sq km, with a population of over 40,000 inhabitants, of whom 24,411 are Catholics, the majority French-speaking. It has 27 parishes, 43 missions, 36 diocesan priests and 9 regular priests, two male religious communities and 9 female ones.
Bibliography2 worksAAS, 31 (1939), pp. 90-92; Le Canada ecclésiastique, 1949, Montréal 1949, pp. 381-84.
Josi, Enrico. “Hearst, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1381. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/hearst-diocesi-di.
MLA
Josi, Enrico. “Hearst, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1381. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/hearst-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_hearst_diocesi_di,
author = {Josi, Enrico},
title = {Hearst, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1381},
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/hearst-diocesi-di}
}
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