SAN GIORGIO DI TERRANOVA, DIOCESE OF. - City and diocese in the province of Terranova, Canada. Around 1850 a population of about 2,000 souls settled in the western part of the island of Terranova, but there were no resident priests, with the exception of the chaplains of French ships.

The first priest to settle in the diocese was the Rev. Alessandro Belanger, but because of the difficulties of travel he always remained at St. George's Bay. On Nov. 2, 1868, the Rev. Thomas Sears, a true apostle of the diocese, came from the diocese of Antigonish. On May 9, 1870, the territory was elevated to an apostolic prefecture and Msgr. Thomas Sears was appointed apostolic prefect. By an apostolic letter of Leo XIII, of Apr. 2, 1892, the prefecture was elevated to an apostolic vicariate, and by a decree of Feb. 18, 1904, the apostolic vicariate became a diocese.

S. G. di T., which today forms part of Canada, has a Catholic population of 20,351 souls evangelized by 16 secular priests and 6 religious (Redemptorists). There are 39 churches, and 130 schools. The metropolitan see is S. G. di T.

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BIBL.: Le Canada ecclésiastique 1950, Montréal 1950, pp. 646-648; M. G. Sears, St Georges, in Cath. Enc., XIII, pp. 350-51.

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