ROCKHAMPTON, DIOCESE OF. - Located in the State of Queensland (Australia), it was erected on 29 Dec. 1882 with territory detached from the diocese of Brisbane and made a suffragan of Sydney.

On 10 May 1887 it was declared a suffragan of Brisbane. The rest of the territory of Queensland had already been erected into the apostolic vicariate of Queensland on 30 Jan. 1877 and on 10 May 1887 changed its name to that of Cook (v. CAIRNS) with a small modification of boundaries with the apostolic vicariate of Kimberley (v.). On 12 Feb. 1930 the new diocese of Townsville was in part detached from it.

The territory has an area of 300,000 sq. km. with a population of ca. 150,256 inhabitants, of whom 30,256 are Catholics and 120,000 Protestants, 74 priests, 25 brothers, 312 sisters, 35 parishes. The school organization is well developed, as are the works of charity and of Catholic Action.

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BIBL.: Acta Leonis PP. XIII, III, Rome 1884, pp. 184-86; VII, ibid. 1888, pp. 90-91; 96-97; AAS, 22 (1930), pp. 312-15; Arch. di Prop. Fide, Relaz. annuale 1951, pos. prot. n. 5431/51.

Saverio Paventi

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