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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lismore (Australia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The pioneer religious of the Lismore diocese (the Sisters of Mercy) reached Grafton in 1884. |
 | | He chose Lismore as his residence (later on, the name of the diocese was changed to Lismore). |
 | | There were in the Diocese of Lismore, at the close of 1909, 19 parochial districts, 51 churches, 20 secular priests, 104 nuns, 6 boarding schools, and 6 superior day schools for girls, 11 primary parochial schools, 1907 children receiving Catholic education and about 19,500 Catholics in a total white population of some 80,000. |
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