Malacca (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Ernest Hull · 1913
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Description
Malacca was a diocese covering the southern Malay Peninsula, then called the Straits Settlements. Its range ran from Singapore and Penang down through Selangor, Perak, and Kelantan. It stretched some 400 miles north to south. Though outside India, it answered to Pondicherry as suffragan.
About 28,000 Catholics lived among roughly 1,800,000 people. Forty-two priests of the Paris Foreign Missions served them in 57 churches and chapels. The cathedral of the Good Shepherd stood at Singapore. A college for native clergy stood at Penang. Forty-nine schools taught 6,660 children. Paul IV erected the see in 1557 under Portuguese patronage. Jurisdiction passed to Ava and Pegu in 1838, then to Siam in 1840. Leo XIII revived it as a diocese in 1888. Edouard Gasnier was its first bishop, followed by Rene Fee and then Emil Barrilon.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ernest Hull |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |