Port Louis, Mauritius, diocese of Comprises the bulk of the island nation of Mauritius. Lazarist Fathers began working in Mauritius in 1722 followed by the Benedictines in 1819. Founded on 7 December 1847, and entrusted to the Fathers of the Holy Ghost, later assisted by Jesuits. Directly subject to the Holy See. See also Catholic-Hierarchy.Org … Continue reading “Port Louis, Mauritius, diocese of”
Port Louis
Port Louis (PORTUS LUDOVICI) This diocese comprises the islands of Mauritius, Rodriguez, Chagos, and Diego Garcia. The Island of Mauritius was discovered by the Portuguese about 1507, but no settlement was formed. The Dutch who visited it in 1598 called it Mauritius in honour of the Stadtholder, Maurice of Nassau; they sent a colony there … Continue reading “Port Louis”
Port Essington, Australia, vicariate apostolic of
Port Essington, Australia, vicariate apostolic of Founded as the Vicariate Apostolic of Port Essington in 1845. Elevated to the diocese of Victoria on 27 May 1847. Jesuits missionaries landed at Palmerston (modern Darwin) on 24 September 1882. On 10 August 1888 the name was changed to the diocese of Victoria-Palmerston. Missionaries of the Sacred Heart … Continue reading “Port Essington, Australia, vicariate apostolic of”
Port Augusta
Port Augusta (PORTAUGUSTANA) This diocese is a suffragan of Adelaide, South Australia, created in 1887. Its boundaries are: north, the twenty-fifth degree of S. latitude; east, the States of Queensland and New South Wales; west, the State of West Australia; south, the counties Musgrave, Jervois, Daly, Stanley, Light, Eyre, and the River Murray. As the … Continue reading “Port Augusta”
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince (PORTUS PRINCIPIS) This archdiocese comprises the western part of the Republic of Haiti. Its population numbers about 668,700, mostly Catholics, the greater part of whom have but a slight knowledge of their religion, and are scattered over a surface of about 3080 sq. miles. The archdiocese was created by the Bull of 3 June, … Continue reading “Port-au-Prince”
Port
Port is the rendering in Neh 2:13 of the Heb. sha’uar, , elsewhere rendered gate (q.v.), as twice in the same verse. These gates of the cities, and the unoccupied spaces on which they opened, served in all Hebrew antiquity for places of public assembling of the citizens (comp. the forum, , of the Greeks … Continue reading “Port”
Porst, Johann
Porst, Johann a Lutheran minister, was born Dec. 11, 1668, at Oberkotzau, not far from Hof. In 1689 he went to Leipsic for the study of theology. In 1695 he was appointed pastor at Malchow, near Berlin; in 1704 he was called to Berlin as preacher at Friedrichswerder and Dorotheenstadt; in 1709 he was made … Continue reading “Porst, Johann”
Porretani
Porretani a name for the followers of GILBERT DE LA PORREE, bishop of Poitiers, a metaphysical divine of the 12th century, who held opinions respecting the personality and the essence of the Holy Trinity analogous to those of the Letratheitae or Damianists of the 6th century. Porretanus attempted to distinguish the divine essence from the … Continue reading “Porretani”
Porreta Margareta
Porreta Margareta one of the numerous victims of religious intolerance in the Middle Ages, was born in Hainault, and published at Paris a book which, according to the decision of the theologians who examined it, contained a number of errors and heresies, et inter caeteras (hoereses) quod anima annihilata in amore conditoris sine reprehensione conscientite … Continue reading “Porreta Margareta”
Porree, Gilbert de la
Porree, Gilbert de la SEE PORRETANI. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature