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In 1953, on the 100th anniversary of the Vicariate Apostolic of Upper Michigan, a centennial mass was held in Marquette. [3] In 1958, Noa issued a directive that Catholics in his diocese should not attend meetings of Moral Re-armament, an international spiritual association, citing its dangers to Catholic faith. Noa resigned as bishop of ...
The largest Catholic Bulgarian town is Rakovski in Plovdiv Province. Ethnic Bulgarian Catholics known as the Banat Bulgarians also inhabit the Central European region of the Banat. Their number is unofficially estimated at 12,000, with 6,500 Banat Bulgarians in the Romanian part of the region. Bulgarian Catholics are descendants of three groups.
The Roman Catholic Church in Bulgaria, joint in an episcopal conference (Mejduritualnata Episcopska Konferenzia vâv Bâlgaria), comprises only exempt sees: two Latin exempt bishoprics; one Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan (exempt) jurisdiction
The Banat Bulgarian Roman Catholic church in Bardarski Geran, Bulgaria The Roman Catholic Church in Vinga, Romania The Roman Catholic Church in Ivanovo, Serbia. In 1963 was estimated that approximately lived 18,000 Banat Bulgarians in Banat, of which 12,000 in Romanian, and 6,000 in Serbian part of the region.
In 1821, the pope erected the Diocese of Cincinnati, taking the Michigan Territory from the Diocese of Bardstown. [2] Pope Gregory XVI formed the Diocese of Detroit in 1833, covering the entire Michigan Territory. In 1833, missionary Frederick Baraga established the first permanent Catholic mission in Grand Rapids. The first resident priest in ...
In the 16th and the 17th centuries Roman Catholic missionaries converted a small number of Bulgarian Paulicians in the districts of Plovdiv and Svishtov to Roman Catholicism. Nowadays there are some 40,000 Roman Catholic Bulgarians in Bulgaria, additional 10,000 in the Banat in Romania and up to 100,000 people of Bulgarian ancestry in South ...
Petar Bogdan Bakshev or Petar Bogdan (Bulgarian: Петър Богдан Бакшев; 1601–1674) was an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulgaria, historian and a key Bulgarian National Revival figure. Petar Bogdan restored the Catholic hierarchy. He is most famous for being the author of the first Bulgarian history. [1] [2]
The first Catholic church in Kalamazoo, St. Augustine's, was dedicated in 1852. [3] St. Philip Roman, the first Catholic Church in Battle Creek, was dedicated by Bishop Casper Borgess of Detroit in 1879. [4] In 1913, Nazareth College was opened in Nazareth, Michigan.