SAN GIACINTO, DIOCESE OF. - Diocese and city in the province of Québec (Canada).

S. G. is an industrial city located 35 miles from Montreal. The Fathers of the first Council of Québec asked the Holy See to erect a diocese at S. G., which was done by Pius IX on June 7, 1852, by dismemberment of Montreal and Québec. In 1874 (Aug. 28) a part of the territory was detached from S. G. to form the diocese of Sherbrooke, after a request by Msgr. Charles Larocque, third bishop of S. G. The latter opened the first house of the Dominicans in Canada in 1873. The diocese possesses a flourishing college founded in 1811 and the major seminary opened in 1935. The total population is 185,700 inhabitants, of whom 175,088 are Catholics (173,981 French-speaking). There are 272 diocesan priests, 87 religious (9 congregations), 2039 nuns (16 congregations) and 662 brothers belonging to six different congregations.

A suffragan of Montreal at the time of its erection, the diocese passed on March 2, 1951 under the jurisdiction of the new metropolitan see of Sherbrooke.

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BIBL.: Mandements et Lettres pastorales des Evêques de St-Hyacinthe, I, Montréal 1888, p. 11; C. P. Choquette, Hist. du Séminaire de St-Hyacinthe, 2 vols., ibid. 1911-12; id., St Hyacinthe, in Cath. Enc., XIII, pp. 351-52; Le Canada Ecclésiastique 1950, Montréal 1950, pp. 250-67; Pius XII, Universi Dominici gregis regimen, in AAS, 43 (1951), pp. 449-51. Gaston Carrière

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