Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. X, 1953 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Salto, Diocese of

SALTO, DIOCESI DI

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SALTO, Diocese of. - City and diocese in Uruguay in the department of the same name.

It has an area of 65,000 sq km with a population of 500,000 inhabitants, of whom 450,000 are Catholics; it has 21 parishes served by 35 diocesan priests and 28 regulars; it has a seminary, 7 male religious communities and 22 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1952, pp. 348-49). This diocese was erected together with that of Melo by the brief of Leo XIII of 19 April 1897, as a suffragan of Montevideo. Owing to political circumstances, its first bishop, Msgr. Tomas Camacho, was not appointed until 1919.

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BIBL.: anon., s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., LIII, pp. 391-92; anon., s. v. in Cath. Enc., XIII, p. 405.

Enrico Josi

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X (1953), col. 1707.

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Josi, Enrico. “Salto, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, col. 1707. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/salto-diocesi-di.

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Josi, Enrico. “Salto, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1707. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/salto-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Josi, Enrico},
  title     = {Salto, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {X},
  pages     = {1707},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/salto-diocesi-di}
}

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