LISMORE, Diocese of. - It is located in the State of New South Wales in Australia and was erected on 10 May 1887 under the name of Grafton, detaching its territory from the diocese of Armidale. The first bishop was G. G. Doyle, who found there 8 parishes, 3 houses of sisters and 3 Catholic schools with 10 priests. On 13 Jan. 1900 the see was transferred to L. and the name was therefore changed.

Over an area of 17,600 sq. km. it has 160,543 inhabitants, of English and Irish origin. The aborigines are very few and there are some Italians. Catholics number 31,110, in the proportion of 1 to 5 compared with Protestants belonging to various denominations. There are no true pagans and Muslims are few in number.

It is entrusted to the secular clergy with 46 diocesan priests and 13 religious, distributed in 25 parishes and 85 churches and chapels. It has a hospital, an orphanage, a home for the aged. Elementary schools 38, secondary schools 26 with 5,915 pupils. The Catholic associations are numerous.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Australasian catholic directory 1950, Sydney 1950, pp. 188-95.

Saverio Paventi

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