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Koango, Vicariate Apostolic of (KOANGO, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
Located in the southwestern part of the Belgian Congo and entrusted to the Society of Jesus. It derives from the ancient apostolic vicariate of the independent… -
Kochanowski, Jan
Poet, b. at Sycyna in 1530, d. at Lublin on 22 Aug. 1584, is the dominant figure in the golden age of Polish literature. He studied at the Academy of Cracow… -
Koellin, Konrad
Dominican theologian, b. at Ulm around 1476, d. at Cologne on 26 Aug. 1536. He entered religious life in his native city in 1492, studied at Ulm and at… -
Koimesis (KÖIMESIS)
It is a simultaneous representation of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary and her passing into Heaven, which became established in Byzantine art. It depicts the… -
Koine (KOINÈ)
KOINÈ: v. GRÉCIA. -
Kokstad, Diocese of (KOKSTAD, DIOCESI DI)
In the Union of South Africa. By decree of 8 April 1935 the south-western region of the apostolic vicariate of Mariannhill was constituted as the apostolic… -
Kolbe, Maksymilian Maria (KOLBE, MAKSYMILIAN-MARIA)
Marian writer and apostle, of the Conventual Friars Minor, b. at Pabjanica, in Poland, on 6 Jan. 1894, d. at Oświęcim, there, on 14 Aug. 1941, in the fame of… -
Kolde, Dietrich
KOLDE, DIETRICH: v. COELDE (KOLDE), THEODORICH. -
Kolping, Adolf
Priest, organizer of the first Catholic workers' associations in Germany, called for this reason the Gesellenvater, b. at Kerpen (Cologne) on 8 Dec. 1813, d.… -
Konarski, Stanisław (KONARSKI, STANISLAW)
Polish pedagogue, Piarist, b. at Zarczya on 30 June 1700, d. at Warsaw on 3 Aug. 1773. He devoted his activity as a writer and priest to the moral elevation of… -
Kondakov, Nicodim Paulovitch
Russian Byzantinist, b. at Chalan (government of Kursk), in 1844, d. at Prague on 16 February 1925. He taught from 1871 to 1887 history of art at the… -
Kongmoon (Jiangmen), Diocese of (KONGMOON (KIANGMEN), DIOCESI DI)
On the lower coast of the civil province of Kwangtung, in southern China. Erected as an apostolic prefecture on 31 Jan. 1924, by division of the apostolic… -
Kongolo, Vicariate Apostolic of (KONGOLO, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
KONGOLO, VICARIATE APOSTOLIC OF.- It is located in the central-eastern part of the Belgian Congo and is entrusted to the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. It… -
König, Eduard
Learned philologist and exegete of the Old Testament, b. at Reichenbach on 15 Nov. 1846, d. at Bonn on 12 Feb. 1936. A conservative Protestant, he taught at… -
Königgrätz, Diocese of (KÖNIGGRÄTZ, DIOCESI DI)
KÖNIGGRÄTZ, DIOCESI di: v. HRADEC KRALOVÉ, DIOCESI di. -
Konings, Anton
Moral theologian of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer; b. at Helmond in Holland on 24 Aug. 1821, he entered the Congregation in 1842, where he… -
Kontum, Vicariate Apostolic of (KONTUM, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
In Indochina, erected on 18 January 1932 by division of the vicariate of Quinhon. It is made up of the provinces of Attopeu, Banmèthuòt, K., and the… -
Kopfel, Wolfgang (KÖPFEL, WOLFANG)
Protestant theologian and reformer, b. at Hagenau in Alsace in 1478, d. at Strasbourg on 4 Nov. 1541. He studied at the Universities of Ingolstadt (1505) and… -
Kopp, Georg von (KÖPP, GEORG VON)
Cardinal, b. at Duderstadt on 25 July 1837, d. at Troppau, now Opava, on 4 March 1914. Ordained a priest in 1862, and appointed director of a school for the… -
Kopystenskij, Zacharija
The most important South Russian anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant polemicist of the 17th century, d. March 21, 1627. From 1624 he was archimandrite of the… -
Korea (COREA)
I. GEOGRAPHY. - In Japanese Chōsen (freshness of the morning). A peninsula of eastern Asia that juts out between Manchuria and the Japanese archipelago, at the… -
Korhogo, Prefecture Apostolic of (KORHOGO, PREFETTURA APOSTOLICA DI)
In the northern part of the Ivory Coast, erected as an apostolic prefecture in 1911, detaching its territory from the vicariate of the Ivory Coast, today… -
Korjun (KORIUN)
Armenian historian of the 5th century, author of a biography of Mastotz, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet and his teacher. Although the information he… -
Korošec, Anton
Slovenian priest and politician, b. at Sv. Jurig on the Scavnica in Styria in 1872, d. at Belgrade on 14 Dec. 1940. In 1906, elected representative of the… -
Kortleitner, Franz Naver
In the world Josef, exegete, b. at Bressanone on 21 Jan. 1863, d. at Innsbruck on 2 Oct. 1939. He entered the Order of the Premonstratensians at Wilten… -
Korum, Michael Felix
Bishop, b. 2 Nov. 1840 at Wickersweier near Colmar, d. 4 Dec. 1921 at Trier. After completing his studies at Innsbruck, he was ordained a priest in 1865 at… -
Kościuszko, Tadeusz
Polish patriot, b. at Mereczowszczyzna on 4 Feb. 1746, d. at Solothurn (Switzerland) on 20 Oct. 1817. Protected by the Czartoryski family, he was able to… -
Košice, Diocese of (CASSOVIA, DIOCESI DI)
In Czechoslovakia. The city (Slovak Košice, Hungarian Kassa, German Kaschau) is an important cultural and economic center in eastern Slovakia. Until 1918 it… -
Kossuth, Lajos
Patriot and politician, b. at Monok in northern Hungary on 17 Sept. 1802, d. in exile at Turin on 20 March 1894. A brilliant orator, lawyer and journalist, he… -
Kotor (Cattaro), Diocese of (CATTARO (KOTOR), DIOCESI DI)
In Dalmatia. Founded in the 10th century. Area 6,367 sq km. Catholics 13,000; belonging to other confessions, overwhelmingly dissenters, 21,000. The diocese… -
Kottar, Diocese of (KOTTAR, DIOCESI DI)
A suffragan of Verapoly, it was dismembered from the diocese of Quilon and entrusted to the Indian secular clergy on 26 May 1930. It is situated in the extreme… -
Kottayam, Diocese of (KOTTAYAM, DIOCESI DI)
Malabar rite of the Eastern rite in Hindustan, suffragan of Ernakulam, erected as an apostolic vicariate on 20 May 1887, and as a bishopric on 21 Dec. 1923.… -
Kovno
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Kozminski, Wacław (Honoratus) (KOZMINSKI, WACLAW (ONORATO))
Capuchin under the name of Fr. Onorato, born at Biała Podlaska in Poland on 16 October 1820, died at Nowe-Miasto on 16 December 1916. While devoting himself to…