Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Camden, New Jersey, diocese of Founded on 9 December 1937. Suffragen of the archdiocese of Newark. See also Catholic-Hierarchy.Org doicese of Camden patron saints index Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Cambysopolis A titular see of Asia Minor. The name is owing to a mistake of some medieval geographer. After his victory at Issus (333 B.C.) Alexander the Great built, near the ancient town of Myriandros, a city called after him Alexandria Minor (or ad Issum, more frequently Scabiosa, i.e. mountainous). It became a suffragan of … Continue reading “Cambysopolis”

Cambyses (, a Gracized form of the old Persic Kabujiya, a bard, Rawlinson, Hercdotms, in, 455), the second Persian monarch of the name, was the son of Cyrus the Great (but by what mother is disputed), whom he succeeded, B.C. 530. In the fifth year of his reign he invaded Egypt, taking offense, according to … Continue reading “Cambyses”

Cambuslang, Walter a Scotch prelate, was bishop of the see of Dunblane in 1362, and signed as witness the fourteen years’ truce between Scotland and England, executed at Edinburgh, July 20, 1369. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 176. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Camburn, Myron B. a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in 1820. He was converted at the age of twelve; licensed to preach in 1844; and in 1846 was admitted into the Michigan Conference. He filled twenty-two conference appointments successively, and died at his post, Oct. 17, 1872. Mr. Camburn was remarkably healthy, faithful, and laborious. … Continue reading “Camburn, Myron B.”

Cambuca a pastoral staff’ .(” Inenturus cruciculam cum cambuca ipsius summi pontificis “). See Mart. Thes. Anecd. iii, 121, a, sq. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Cambridge, University of I. ORIGIN AND HISTORY The obscurity which surrounds the ancient history of Cambridge makes it impossible to fix with any certainty the date of the foundation of the great seat of learning now known as the university. In the days of Queen Elizabeth the most extraordinary legends were current, propounded by learned … Continue reading “Cambridge, University of”

Cambridge Summer School of Catholic Studies, The Cambridge, England , a development, with papal approval, of the Catholic Bible Congress held at Cambridge in 1921, but with a wider scope so as to comprehend the explanation of the truths of the Faith by competent lecturers from the secular and regular clergy. The papers read and … Continue reading “Cambridge Summer School of Catholic Studies, The”

Cambridge School A term loosely applied to English philosophers who have been influenced by the teachings of Professor G. E. Moore (mainly in unpublished lectures delivered at the Cambridge University, 1911-1939). In earlier years Moore stressed the need to accept the judgments of “common sense” on such matters as the existence of other persons, of … Continue reading “Cambridge School”

Cambridge Platonists A small group of 17th century Cambridge thinkers whose views represented a kind of revival of Platonism. Esp. Ralph Cudworth and Henry More. Remembered chiefly, perhaps, for holding that ethics rests on certain absolute and self-evident truths. — W.K.F. Newton was influenced by Henry More, e.g. in viewing space as the sensorium of … Continue reading “Cambridge Platonists”