Enciclopedia Cattolica

LISBONA, PATRIARCATO DI

Lisbon, Patriarchate of

Volume VII · p. 853 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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

LISBON, PATRIARCHATE OF. — In Portugal. It has an area of 15,000 sq. km. with 1,621,500 inhabitants, of whom 1,297,000 are Catholics. It comprises 324 parishes, 348 diocesan priests and 92 regular clergy, 1 seminary, 29 male religious communities and 73 female (1950).