(Concelhos, 市) A concelho is the primary local administrative unit in Portugal (and other Lusophone countries). ...
Macao (Concelho de Macau, also Cidade do (Santo) Nome de Deus de Macau, Não há outra mais Leal, literally "City of (Holy) Name of God. No One More Loyal", 澳門市)
(Freguesias da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau, 澳門特別行政區的堂區) National motto: none Official language Chinese and Portuguese Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau-wah Area - Total - % water Not ranked 27. ... A freguesia is a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and the former Portuguese overseas province of Macao. ...
St. ... St. ... Cathedral Parish (大堂區 Pinyin: Dà Tángqū; Portuguese: Freguesia da Se) is a southeast region of Macau Peninsula, Macau, the Peoples Republic of China. ... St. ...
Taipa (氹仔島) is an island of Macau in the Peoples Republic of China. ... Coloane ( Simplified: 路環島, Traditional: 路环岛, Pinyin: Lùhuán Dǎo, Jyutping: Lou6-waan4 Dou2, literally Road Ring) is an island of Macau in the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Note
The municipal councils (Câmara Municipal de Macau and Câmara Municipal das Ilhas; Câmara Municipal de Macau Provisória and Câmara Municipal das Ilhas Provisória (with Assembleia Municipal Provisória) after the handover) were dissoluted on December 31, 2004 and the Institue of Civic and Municipal Affairs (Instituto para os Assuntos Cívicos e Municipais) was set up. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
External links
Freguesias da RAEM (http://www.dscc.gov.mo/port/detail/frequesi.htm)
Parishes of Macao (http://soviet.lovehinaplus.com/LMSAR.HTM), in Traditional Chinese
Instituto para os Assuntos Cívicos e Municipais (ICAM) (http://www.iacm.gov.mo/iacm2002_p.htm), in Portuguese
Coat-of-arms of Câmara Municipal de Macau (http://www.fotw.net/flags/mo-mau.html)
Coat-of-arms of Câmara Municipal de Macau Provisória and Assembleia Municipal Provisória (http://www.fotw.net/flags/mo-mau99.html)
The clergy of the large cities, where there were universities, were cultured, but the rural clergy were ignorant and neglected their flocks, who, in face of the disorders created by the conflict between the Protestant Reformation and Catholicism, not knowing which to believe, lost all interest in religion.
The parish of Sedan was at first transferred to the Mission by the Archbishop with the consent of the Abbot Mouzon and the religious of the abbey, and Louis XIII gave an annual income of 2,500 livres for the administrration of the parish and the support of the missions.
The parish of La Salle, Illinois, a centre for the missionary labours of the Lazarists, was established in 1838 and they still minister to the faithful there.
The city of Goa, originally a fortress in the hands first of the Hindus and then of the Mohammedans, was taken by Albuquerque in 1510.
Lying on a low stretch of coast-land, surrounded on two sides by shallow creeks and on the other two by miasmic marshes, the place was soon found unhealthy to such a degree that, after several ravages by epidemics, it was gradually abandoned in favour of Panjim, five miles nearer the sea.
According to Madras Directory for 1908 the totals for the archdiocese are as follows: 102 parishes and 22 missions, 129 churches and 336 chapels, 619 priests, 312 confraternities, and 306 pious associations; 3879 children attending schools, and a total Catholic population of 335,031.