Enciclopedia Cattolica

LANCASTER, DIOCESI DI

Lancaster, Diocese of

Volume VII · p. 538 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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

LANCASTER, DIOCESE OF. – A city and diocese in England. It has a population of 887,007, of whom 111,464 are Catholics, distributed in 88 parishes.

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(from F. L. Prodromo o vero seggio di alcune inventioni nuove prontese all'Arts Muestro, Brescia 508, teo. di fronte a p. 51) Lana Terzi, Francesco – A ship capable of moving through the air with oars and sails. A.B.C.D.: Four hollow spheres of air; F-E: wooden boat with sail. Inclusion in copper – Exe et caesarei (Lyon 1574); Regularum ex universo pontificio iure libri III (Perugia 1587).

BIBL.: I. F. Schulte, Die Geschichte der Quellen u. Literatur des canonischen Rechts, III, 1. Stuttgart 1880, pp. 451-53; A. Van Hove, Prolegomena, 2nd ed., Malines-Rome 1945, pp. 384-85, 530, 546, 569.