Enciclopedia Cattolica

WAGGA-WAGGA, DIOCESI DI

Wagga Wagga, Diocese of

Volume XII · p. 1023 · 1954

English translation · Testo originale italiano

WAGGA-WAGGA, DIOCESI di. - È situata nello Stato della Nuova Galles del Sud (Australia).
WAGGA-WAGGA, DIOCESI di. - È situata nello Stato della Nuova Galles del Sud (Australia).

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

The territory originally belonged to the Archdiocese of Sydney, then it was included in the Diocese of Goulburn, from which it was separated on 28 July

1917. It takes its name from the city of W

W. (a name which in the language of the aborigines, now extinct, means “crow”), seat of the Ordinary.

It has an area of 70,000 sq. km. with 100,000 inhabitants, of whom 24,000 are Catholics and the rest Protestants. There are 21 parishes, 63 churches, 41 priests, 215 sisters, 34 schools and colleges, 2 hospitals, and 1 orphanage.

BIBL.: AAS, 9 (1917), pp. 424-25; MC, 1950, pp. 458-59; Australasian Cath. Directory 1952, Sydney 1952, pp. 216-22. Saverio Paventi