Catholic Encyclopedia - U
- Ubaghs, Casimir:
Born at Bergélez-Fauquemont, 26 November, 1800; died at Louvain, 15 ...
- Ubaldus, Saint:
Confessor,
- Ubanghi:
(UPPER FRENCH CONGO.)
Vicariate Apostolic ; formerly part ...
- Ubanghi, Belgian:
In Belgian Congo, separated on 7 April, 1911, from the Vicariate of the Belgian ...
- Ubanghi-Chari:
Prefecture Apostolic in Equatorial Africa, lies west of the Bahr-el-Ghazal ...
- Uberaba:
(DE UBERABA.)
Suffragan
- Ubertino of Casale:
Leader of the Spirituals, born at Casale of Vercelli, 1259; died about 1330. ...
- Ubiquitarians:
Also called Ubiquists , a Protestant sect started at the Lutheran
- Ucayali:
(SAN FRANCISCO DE UCAYALI.)
Prefecture Apostolic in Peru. ...
- Uccello:
Painter, born at Florence, 1397; died there, 1475. His real name was Paolo di ...
- Udine:
(UTINENSIS)
The city of Udine, the capital of a province and ...
- Ugento:
(UXENTIN)
The city of Ugento, with its small harbour, is ...
- Ughelli, Ferdinando:
Historian, born at Florence, 21 March, 1595; died 19 May, 1670. Having entered the ...
- Uhtred:
(Also spelled:
- Ujejski, Cornelius:
Polish poet, born at Beremiany, Galicia, 1823; died at Cholojewie, 1897. His ...
- Ulenberg, Kaspar:
Convert, theological writer and translator of the
- Ulfilas:
(Also: Ulphilas ),
- Ullathorne, William Bernard:
English Benedictine
- Ullerston, Richard:
Born in the Duchy of Lancaster, England ; d. in August or September, 1423. ...
- Ulloa, Antoine de:
Naval officer and scientist, born at Seville, Spain, 12 Jan., 1716; died near ...
- Ulloa, Francisco de:
Died 1540. It is not known when he came to
- Ulrich of Bamberg:
(Udalricus Babenbergensis), a
- Ulrich of Richenthal:
Chronicler of the Council of
- Ulrich of Zell:
(Wulderic; called also of Cluny, and of
- Ulrich, Saint:
Bishop of Augsburg, born at Kyburg, Zurich, Switzerland, in 890; died at ...
- Ultan of Ardbracca:
St. Ultan of ...
- Ultramontanism:
A term used to denote integral and active Catholicism, because it recognizes as ...
- Unam Sanctam:
(Latin the One Holy , i.e. Church ), the Bull on papal supremacy issued 18 ...
- Unclean and Clean:
The distinction between legal and ceremonial, as opposed to moral, cleanness and ...
- Unction, Extreme: A sacrament of the New
- Ungava:
A Canadian territory
- Uniformity Acts:
These statutes, passed at different times, were vain efforts to secure uniformity ...
- Unigenitus:
A celebrated Apostolic Constitution of Clement XI, condemning 101 propositions ...
- Union of Brest:
Brest -- in Russian, Brest-Litovski; in Polish, Brzesc; in the old chronicles, ...
- Union of Christendom:
The Catholic ...
- Unions of Prayer:
A tendency to
- Unitarians:
A Liberal Protestant sect which holds as it distinctive tenet the
- Unitas Fratrum:
(MORAVIAN BRETHREN, or UNITAS FRATRUM).
DEFINITION AND DOCTRINAL ...
- United States of America, The: BOUNDARIES AND AREA
On the east the boundary is formed by the
- Unitive Way:
The word state is used in various senses by theologians and spiritual writers. ...
- Unity:
The marks of the Church are certain unmistakeable signs, or distinctive ...
- Universalists:
A Liberal Protestant sect -- found chiefly in North
- Universals:
The name refers on the one hand to the inclination towards uniformity ( ...
- Universe:
Universe (or ...
- Universe, Relation of God to the: 1. Essential Dependence of the
- Universities:
The principal
- University College (Dublin):
A constitutional
- Unjust Aggressor:
According to the accepted teaching of theologians, it is lawful, in the defense ...
- Unyanyembe:
Vicariate apostolic in German East Africa, separated from the Vicariate ...
- Upper Nile:
Vicariate apostolic ; separated from the mission of Nyanza, 6 July, 1894, ...
- Upper Rhine:
Ecclesiastical province; includes the
- Upsala, Ancient See of:
When St. Ansgar, the
- Upsala, University of:
The oldest and most celebrated university of Sweden. Even today the arrangement ...
- Uranopolis:
A titular see of
- Urban I, Pope Saint:
Reigned 222-30, date of birth unknown; died 23 May, 230. According to the "Liber ...
- Urban II, Pope Blessed:
(Otho, Otto or Odo of Lagery), 1088-1099, born of a knightly family, at ...
- Urban III, Pope:
Reigned 1185-87, born at
- Urban IV, Pope:
Reigned 1261-64 (Jacques Pantaléon), son of a French cobbler, born at ...
- Urban V, Pope Blessed:
Guillaume de Grimoard, born at Grisac in Languedoc, 1310; died at Avignon, 19 ...
- Urban VI, Pope:
Bartolomeo Prignano, the first Roman pope during the Western Schism, born at ...
- Urban VII, Pope:
Giambattista Castagna, born at Rome, 4 Aug., 1521; elected pope, 15 September, ...
- Urban VIII, Pope:
Maffeo Barberini, born at
- Urbi et Orbi:
The term Urbi et ...
- Urbino:
(URBINATENSIS)
Province of
- Urbs beata Jerusalem dicta pacis visio:
The first line of a
- Urdaneta, Andrés:
Augustinian, born at Villafranca, Guipúzcoa, Spain, 1498; died in the City ...
- Urgel:
(U RGELLENSIS ).
Diocese in Spain, suffragan of
- Urim and Thummim:
The sacred lot ...
- Urmiah:
A residential see in Chaldea, in the Province of Adherbaidjan, Persia. The ...
- Urráburu, Juan José:
Scholastic philosopher, born at Ceanuri, Biscay, 23 May, 1844; died at Burgos, 13 ...
- Ursperger Chronicle:
A history of the world in Latin that begins with the Assyrian King Ninius and ...
- Ursula of the Blessed Virgin, Society of the Sisters of Saint:
Religious congregation of women founded in 1606 at Döle (then a Spanish ...
- Ursula, Saint, and the Eleven Thousand Virgins:
The history of these celebrated virgins of
- Ursulines of Quebec, The:
The Ursuline monastery of Quebec is the oldest institution of learning for ...
- Ursulines, The:
A religious order founded by St. Angela de Merici for the sole purpose of ...
- Ursus, Saint:
Patron of the principal church of Solothurn (Soleure) in Switzerland, honoured ...
- Urubamba:
(MISIONES DE SANTO DOMINGO DE URUBAMBA Y MADRE DE DIOS)
This ...
- Uruguay:
(REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY).
The smallest independent ...
- Uruguayana:
(URUGUAYANESIS)
Diocese ; suffragan of Porto Alegre, ...
- Ushaw College:
(College of St. Cuthbert)
A combined
- Usilla:
A titular see of Byzacena in Africa. Nothing is known of the history of this ...
- Usuard, Martyrology of:
Usuard was a Benedictine
- Usury:
In the article INTEREST we have reserved the question of the lawfulness of taking ...
- Ut Queant Laxis Resonare Fibris:
The first line of a
- Utah:
Utah, the thirty-second state admitted to the Union, takes its name from an ...
- Uthina:
A titular see of
- Utica:
A titular see in
- Utilitarianism:
( Latin utilis , useful).
- Utopia:
(Greek ou no or not, and topos place), a term used to designate a visionary ...
- Utraquism:
The principal dogma, and one of the four articles, of the Calixtines or
- Utrecht, Archdiocese of:
Situated in the Netherlands, includes the Provinces of Utrecht, Friesland, ...
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