Port Victoria, Seychelles, diocese of Comprises the Seychelles Islands. Founded Prefecture Apostolic of Seychelles in 1852. Elevated to the Vicariate Apostolic of Seychelles in 1880. Elevated to the diocese of Port Victoria o Seychelles on 14 July 1892, and entrusted to the Capuchins. Directly subject to the Holy See. See also Catholic-Hierarchy.Org New Catholic Dictionary … Continue reading “Port Victoria, Seychelles, diocese of”
Port Victoria
Port Victoria (PORTUS VICTORIÆ SEYCHELLARUM.) Port Victoria comprises the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. With their dependencies, these eighty-nine islands, the principal of which are Mahé, Praslin, Silhouette, Curieuse, and La Digue, cover an area of 148½ sq. miles. The French occupied the islands about 1742, but they were captured by the British in … Continue reading “Port Victoria”
Port Royalists
Port Royalists Name applied to a group of thinkers, writers, and educators, more or less closely connected with the celebrated Cistercian Abbey of Port Royal near Paris, which during the seventeenth century became the most active center of Jansenism and, to a certain extent, of Cartesianism in France. The Port Royalists were distinguished by the … Continue reading “Port Royalists”
Port-Royal, Recluses of
Port-Royal, Recluses of Occupy a most important position in the ecclesiastical and literary history of France, especially in the 17th century, and are largely identified with the Jansenistic controversy. Port-Royal (Porrigium, Portus Regis, Porreal) lay in the vicinity of the hamlet of Chevreuse, three leagues from Versailles, and six from Paris. Here occurred a memorable … Continue reading “Port-Royal, Recluses of”
Port Royal Logic
Port Royal Logic See Logic, traditional. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy
Port-Royal
Port-Royal A Benedictine abbey for women, founded by Mathilde de Garlande in 1204; located at Chevreuse, near Versailles. It later came under the rule of Citeaux and after its reformation by Mother Angelique Arnauld in 1609, became a center and fortress of Jansenism. In 1626 the community repaired to Paris where it founded Port-Royal of … Continue reading “Port-Royal”
Port, Porter
Port, Porter port, porter: Port in the sense of gate (of a city or building) is obsolete in modern English, and even in the King James Version is found only in Neh 2:13. Porter, as gate-keeper, however, is still in some use, but porter now (but never in the English Versions of the Bible) generally … Continue reading “Port, Porter”
Port Pirie, Australia, diocese of
Port Pirie, Australia, diocese of Founded as the diocese of Port Augusta on 10 may 1887. Suffragan of the archdiocese of Adelaide . Name changed to the diocese of Port Pirie on 7 June 1951. See also, Catholic-Hierarchy.Org New Catholic Dictionary Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, archdiocese of
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, archdiocese of Founded as the Vicariate Apostolic of Trinidad on 23 February 1818. Elevated to the archdiocese of Port of Spain on 30 April 1850. Suffragen dioceses include Bridgetown, Barbados Georgetown, Guyana Paramaribo, Suriname Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles See also Catholic-Hierarchy.Org archdiocese of Port of Spain patron saints index New … Continue reading “Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, archdiocese of”
Port of Spain
Port of Spain (PORTUS HISPANIÆ) An archiepiscopal and metropolitan see, including the Islands of Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia. The Catholic population is about 200,000. Christianity was introduced by the Spanish discoverers and missions established in those islands where permanent settlements were effected. The first preachers of the Faith in … Continue reading “Port of Spain”