Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
NUOVA SEGOVIA, DIOCESI of. — Diocese in the province of Ilocos Sur in the Philippine Islands.
It has an area of 11,559 sq. km., with 851,673 inhabitants, of whom 589,676 are Catholics, distributed among 80 parishes, served by 102 diocesan priests and 49 religious; it has 1 seminary, 3 male and 15 female religious communities (Ann. Pont., 1951, p. 294).
The diocese was created by Pope Clement VIII on 14 Aug.
(phot. U.S.I.S.) NUOVA YORK, ARCIDIOCESI of — Panorama of N. Y., seen from the harbor.1595 as a suffragan of Manila. Around the middle of the eighteenth century, the residence was transferred to Vigan. As a result of successive divisions, the territory was progressively reduced and today comprises the civil provinces of Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, and Luzon.
BIBL.: Estado general del arzobispado de Manila y de los Obispados sufragancos de... Nueva Segovia, Manila 1886, pp. 23–33. Nicola Kowalsky
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“NUOVA SEGOVIA, DIOCESI DI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII (1952), p. 1186. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/nuova-segovia-diocesi-di.
