SAINT ANNE DE LA POCATIÈRE, DIOCESE OF. - City and diocese in the province of Québec (Canada).

It has a population of 87,468 inhabitants, of whom 87,369 are Catholics distributed among 53 parishes served by 180 diocesan priests; there are 2 classical colleges, 2 normal schools for young ladies, the University Faculty of Agriculture, 10 hospitals. The diocese was created by Pope Pius XII with the apostolic constitution Sollieri studio of 23 June 1951, by detaching from the archdiocese of Québec the civil counties of Kamouraska, Islet, Montmagny and Rivière de Loup, and elevating the church of St. Anne in the city of S. A. de la P. to the dignity and rank of cathedral. It is a suffragan of Québec. The College of S. A. de la P. was founded in 1827 by the Rev. Carlo Francesco Poinchaud.

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BIBL.: W. Lebon, Hist. du collège de Ste-Anne de la Pocatière, 2 vols., Québec 1948-49; AAS, 43 (1951), pp. 831-35; Le Canada ecclésiastique, Montréal 1952.

Gastone Carrière

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