LIEPĀJA, Diocese of. - City and diocese in Latvia. It has an area of 26,830 sq km with a population of 592,028 inhabitants, of whom 89,677 are Catholics with 30 churches and 40 parishes, and it is a suffragan of Riga.
The diocese was created by Pope Pius XI with the apostolic constitution Aeterna animarum salus of 8 May 1937, by dismemberment from the diocese of Riga, of the civil districts of Courland and Semigallia, erecting to the rank and dignity of cathedral the parish church of St. Joseph existing in the city of L.
Josi, Enrico. “Liepaja, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1339. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/liepaja-diocesi-di.
MLA
Josi, Enrico. “Liepaja, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1339. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/liepaja-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_liepaja_diocesi_di,
author = {Josi, Enrico},
title = {Liepaja, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {1339},
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/liepaja-diocesi-di}
}
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