Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VIII, 1952 Geography & dioceses States, regions and cities

Nicobar Islands

NICOBARE

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Also known as: Nicobars; Italian: Isole Nicobare

NICOBAR ISLANDS. - A group of islands in the Bay of Bengal north of the island of Sumatra; twelve of them are inhabited by a population of about 10,000 inhabitants.

The archipelago of the N. remained politically independent until 1869, when England took possession of it. The first attempt at evangelization was made by Gherardo Cortenovis, apostolic vicar of Ava-Pegu (Burma), who died there (1794). In 1835 two missionaries of the Paris Foreign Missions, Paolo Supriès and Alessandro Calabert, went to the N. Because of fevers they were forced to leave the Islands, after having baptized only one child in articulo mortis. Today the N. belong to the diocese of Malacca.

Bibliography

BIBL.: A. Launay, Histoire des missions de l'Inde, I, Paris 1898, pp. 250-318.

Nicola Kowalsky

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII (1952), col. 1841.

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Kowalsky, Nicola. “Nicobare.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 1841. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/nicobare.

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Kowalsky, Nicola. “Nicobare.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1841. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/nicobare.

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  author    = {Kowalsky, Nicola},
  title     = {Nicobare},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VIII},
  pages     = {1841},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
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