New Lisbon, Diocese of (NUOVA LISBONA, DIOCESI DI) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. VIII, p. 1185

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

NUOVA LISBONA, DIOCESE OF. - City and diocese

Article illustration — (from Enc. Ital., XXV, 140 f.) DUTCH NEW GUINEA, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE OF - House of the famous - Dutch New Guinea.

in Angola, Portuguese possession in West Africa.

Over an area of 290,360 sq. km., it has a population of 1,284,668 inhabitants, of whom 394,621 are Catholic. It comprises 37 parishes, served by 13 diocesan priests and 100 religious, and 3 seminaries.

The diocese was erected by Pope Pius XII with the apostolic constitution Solemnibus conventionibus of 4 Sept. 1940, raising the parish church of N. L., dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, to the dignity of a cathedral and making it a suffragan of Luanda.

BIBL.: AAS, 33 (1941), p. 14; Agencia General das Colonias. A diocese de Nova Lisboa, Lisbon 1946.

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