TRENTON, Diocese of. - Diocese and city in the State of New York (U.S.A.).

The diocese was erected on 15 July 1881 as a suffragan of New York, and today it comprises 8 counties of New Jersey with a total area of 3777 miles, and a population of 1,100,000 inhabitants, of whom 330,000 are Catholics. In the diocese there are 247 diocesan priests, 126 religious of 13 different congregations, 195 parishes, 127 chapels, 37 missions, 63 stations, 9 male religious communities and 118 female communities (1138 religious women),

5 seminaries (353 seminarians), 1 college for boys, 1 orphanage, 4 hospitals.

The first Mass was celebrated in the diocese at Woodbridge in 1672, and the first church is found at T. in 1814. The first bishop of T. was Msgr. Michael O'Farrell, born in Ireland and for some time a member of the Society of the Sulpicians and professor at the major seminary of Montreal (Canada).

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BIBL.: J. G. Shea, Hist. of the Cath. Church in the Un. States, IV, New York 1892, pp. 499, 501; J. P. Powers, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XV, p. 37; The Official Cath. Directory 1951, New York 1951, pp. 594-600; Th. Boemer, The Cath. Church in the Un. States, St. Louis-London 1950, p. 283; Ann. Pont. 1933, p. 429.

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