Trenton, Diocese of (TRENTON, DIOCESI DI) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XII, p. 314

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

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 comprises 8 counties of New Jersey, with a total area of 3,777 square 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 belonging to 13 different congregations, 195 parishes, 127 chapels, 37 missions, 63 stations, 9 male religious communities and 118 female communities (1,138 religious),

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

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

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.