Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IX, 1952 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Peterborough, Diocese of

PETERBOROUGH, DIOCESI DI

By Gastone Carrière

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PETERBOROUGH, DIOCESE OF. - In the province of Ontario, Canada. Pius IX founded the apostolic vicariate of Northern Canada on 3 February 1874 with the bull Arcano divinae Providentiae, and Leo XIII elevated it to a diocese on 11 July 1882 with the bull Quod Venerabiles Fratres.

The apostolic vicariate of Northern Canada derives from a partition of the diocese of Ottawa, and the new diocese was made a suffragan of Kingston. It has a Catholic population of 27,000 souls; 51 diocesan priests and 4 religious (Redemptorists) have the care of souls. There are 67 churches, 2 hospitals, 2 orphanages and 29 parishes. The diocese covers an area of 10,047 square miles.

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BIBL.: Le Canada ecclésiastique, Montréal 1950, pp. 450-54; The Ontario year book and directory, Toronto 1950.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), col. 1283.

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Carrière, Gastone. “Peterborough, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1283. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/peterborough-diocesi-di.

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Carrière, Gastone. “Peterborough, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1283. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/peterborough-diocesi-di.

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@incollection{ec9_peterborough_diocesi_di,
  author    = {Carrière, Gastone},
  title     = {Peterborough, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IX},
  pages     = {1283},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/peterborough-diocesi-di}
}

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