LONDON, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the province of Ontario (Canada). Erected as a diocese by Pius IX with the brief De Salute Dominici gregis of 21 February 1855, by dismemberment of the diocese of Toronto (Ontario). Its see was changed on 2 February 1859 from L. to Sandwich and then from Sandwich to L. on 3 October 1869.

It has a Catholic population of 129,879 souls distributed in 97 parishes, with 169 diocesan priests and 82 religious (Capuchins, Congregation of St. Basil,

Redemptorists, Scarboro Bluffs Foreign Missions). There are 3 seminaries, 2 colleges, 101 churches with a resident priest, 31 missions, 120 churches, 4 hospitals, 1 orphanage.

The area of the territory is 13,272 sq km and the total population is 711,328 inhabitants, of whom 131,755 are Catholics.

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BIBL.: Arch. della S. Congr. d. Prop. Fide. - Litt. 1859, CCCL, fol. 129v; Pius X, In sublimi principii, 16 Sept. 1904, in Pii X P. M. Acta, I, Rome 1905, p. 354; Le Canada ecclésiastique, Montréal 1950, pp. 435-44; The Ontario year book and directory, Toronto 1950, v. index.

Gastone Carrière

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