Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XII, 1954 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Villa Reale, Diocese of

VILLA REALE, DIOCESI DI

By Carmo da Silva

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Also known as: Diocese of Vila Real; Portuguese: Vila Real

VILLA REALE, Diocese of. - City and diocese in the province of Trás-os-Montes, in Portugal.

It has an area of 4,273.20 sq km and a population of 319,883 inhabitants, of whom 319,000 are Catholics distributed in 257 parishes served by 194 diocesan priests and 17 regulars; it has a seminary, 4 male communities and 11 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 448).

The diocese of V. R. was established by Pius XI with the bull Apostolica praedecetorum nostrorum of 20 April 1922, with territory detached from the dioceses of Braga, Lamego and Braganza in order to limit the diocese to the civil district of V. R.

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BIBL.: AAS, 14 (1922), pp. 369-72; M. de Oliveira, Hist. ecl. de Portugal, 2nd ed., Lisbon 1948, p. 360.

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Da, Silva Carmo. “Villa Reale, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 1428. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/villa-reale-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Da, Silva Carmo},
  title     = {Villa Reale, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XII},
  pages     = {1428},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1954},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/villa-reale-diocesi-di}
}

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