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• Ubaghs, Casimir

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15114a.htm
  Born at Bergélez-Fauquemont, 26 November, 1800; died at Louvain, 15 February, 1875.

• Ubaldus, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15114b.htm
  Confessor, Bishop of Gubbio, born of noble parents at Gubbio, Umbria, Italy, towards the beginning of the twelfth centry; died there, Whitsuntide, 1168.

• Ubanghi

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15115b.htm
  Vicariate Apostolic; formerly part of the Vicariate of French Congo, erected on 14 Oct., 1890.

• Ubanghi, Belgian

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15115a.htm
  In Belgian Congo, separated on 7 April, 1911, from the Vicariate of the Belgian Congo and entrusted to the Capuchins.

• Ubanghi-Chari

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15115c.htm
  Prefecture Apostolic in Equatorial Africa.

• Uberaba

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15115d.htm
  Suffragan diocese of Marianna, in Brazil.

• Ubertino of Casale

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15116a.htm
  Leader of the Spirituals, born at Casale of Vercelli, 1259; died about 1330.

• Ubiquitarians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15117a.htm
  A Protestant sect started at the Lutheran synod of Stuttgart, 19 December, 1559, by John Brenz.

• Ucayali

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15117b.htm
  Prefecture Apostolic in Peru.

• Uccello

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15117c.htm
  Painter, born at Florence, 1397; died there, 1475.

• Udine

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15118a.htm
  The capital of a province and archdiocese in Friuli, northern Italy.

• Ugento

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15119a.htm
  Situated in the Province of Leece, in Apulia, on the Gulf of Tarentum.

• Ughelli, Ferdinando

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15119b.htm
  Historian. (1595-1670)

• Uhtred

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15119c.htm
  An English Benedictine theologian and writer.

• Ujejski, Cornelius

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15120a.htm
  Polish poet. (1823-1897)

• Ulenberg, Kaspar

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15120b.htm
  Convert, theological writer and translator of the Bible. (1549-1617)

• Ulfilas

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15120c.htm
  Apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator of the Bible, and inventor of an alphabet.

• Ullathorne, William Bernard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15121a.htm
  English Benedictine monk and bishop. (1806-1889)

• Ullerston, Richard

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15122a.htm
  From 1403 held the prebend of Oxford in Salisbury cathedral, and from 1407 the rectory of Beeford in Yorkshire.

• Ulloa, Antoine de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15122b.htm
  Naval officer and scientist. (1716-1795)

• Ulloa, Francisco de

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15122c.htm
  Accompanied Hernan Cortés to California.

• Ulrich of Bamberg

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15124a.htm
  A cleric of the cathedral church of Bamberg.

• Ulrich of Richenthal

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15124b.htm
  Chronicler of the Council of Constance.

• Ulrich of Zell

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15124c.htm
  Wulderic; called also of Cluny, and of Ratisbon.

• Ulrich, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15123a.htm
  Bishop of Augsburg, died 973.

• Ultan of Ardbracca

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15124d.htm
  Collected a life of the Irish saint for his pupil, St. Brogan Cloen of Rostuirc, on Ossory.

• Ultramontanism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15125a.htm
  A term used to denote integral and active Catholicism.

• Unam Sanctam

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15126a.htm
  The Bull on papal supremacy issued 18 November, 1302, by Boniface VIII during the dispute with Philip the Fair, King of France.

• Ungava

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15127a.htm
  A Canadian territory lying north of the Province of Quebec.

• Uniformity Acts

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15127b.htm
  Statutes passed in an effort to secure uniformity in public worship throughout England.

• Unigenitus

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15128a.htm
  A celebrated Apostolic Constitution of Clement XI, condemning 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel.

• Union of Brest

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15130a.htm
  1596. The union of the Ruthenians with Catholicism.

• Union of Christendom

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15132a.htm
  Includes the Catholic Church together with the many other religious communions which have either directly or indirectly, separated from it.

• Unions of Prayer

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15154a.htm
  Details of four unions of prayer.

• Unitarians

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15154b.htm
  A Protestant sect which holds as it distinctive tenet the belief in a uni-personal instead of a tri-personal God.

• United States of America, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15156a.htm
  Provides geographic, historic, and statistical information.

• Unity

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15179a.htm
  Characterizes the one Church founded by Christ.

• Universalists

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15181a.htm
  A liberal Protestant sect whose distinctive tenet is the belief in the final salvation of all souls.

• Universals

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15182a.htm
  Those ideas which, while excluding whatever constitutes the difference of things of the same genus or species, represent that which is necessary to their constitution, is essential, and is therefore common to all, remaining fixed in all vicissitudes.

• Universe

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15183a.htm
  Presents a history of astronomy.

• Universities

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15188a.htm
  The principal Catholic foundations have been treated in special articles; here the general aspects of the subject are presented.

• University College (Dublin)

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15200a.htm
  A constitutional college of the National University of Ireland.

• Unyanyembe

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15204a.htm
  Vicariate apostolic in German East Africa.

• Upper Nile

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15205a.htm
  Vicariate apostolic; separated from the mission of Nyanza, 6 July, 1894, comprises the eastern portion of Uganda.

• Upper Rhine

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15205b.htm
  Ecclesiastical province; includes the Archdiocese of Freiburg and the suffragan Dioceses of Fulda, Mainz, Limburg, and Rottenburg.

• Upsala, Ancient See of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15207a.htm
  History of an episcopal see established at Old Upsala, the center of idolatrous worship not only for Sweden but for all Scandinavia.

• Upsala, University of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15208a.htm
  The oldest university of Sweden.

• Uranopolis

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15208b.htm
  A titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of Ancyra in Galatia Prima.

• Urban I, Pope Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15209a.htm
  Died 230. Very little is known about his life, and even his burial place was in doubt for some time.

• Urban II, Pope Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15210a.htm
  Long article on the canon and later Cluniac prior, assistant to Pope Gregory VII. Urban was elected unanimously to the papacy in 1088, but was forced to spend years wandering southern Italy. He died in 1099.

• Urban III, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15211a.htm
  Reigned 1185-87, born at Milan; died at Ferrara, 19 October, 1187.

• Urban IV, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15212a.htm
  Reigned 1216-64.

• Urban V, Pope Blessed

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15214a.htm
  Benedictine monk, canonist, diplomat, elected to the papacy in 1362, d. 1370.

• Urban VI, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15216a.htm
  Bartolomeo Prignano, the first Roman pope during the Western Schism.

• Urban VII, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15218a.htm
  Giambattista Castagna, born at Rome, 4 Aug., 1521; elected pope, 15 September, 1590; died at Rome, 27 September, 1590.

• Urban VIII, Pope

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15218b.htm
  Maffeo Barberini. (1568-1644)

• Urbi et Orbi

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15221a.htm
  Signifies that a papal document is addressed not only to the City of Rome but to the entire Catholic world.

• Urbino

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15221b.htm
  Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Italy.

• Urbs Beata Jerusalem dicta pacis visio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15222a.htm
  The first line of a hymn of probably the seventh or eighth century, comprising eight stanzas together with a doxology.

• Urdaneta, Andrés

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15223a.htm
  Augustinian, born at Villafranca, Guipúzcoa, Spain, 1498; died in the City of Mexico, 1568.

• Urgel

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15223b.htm
  Diocese in Spain, suffragan of Tarragona.

• Urim and Thummim

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15224a.htm
  The sacred lot by means of which the ancient Hebrews were wont to seek manifestations of the Divine will.

• Urmiah

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15225a.htm
  A residential see in Chaldea, in the Province of Adherbaidjan, Persia.

• Urráburu, Juan José

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15225b.htm
  Article on this Jesuit thinker, by Antonio Nadal.

• Ursperger Chronicle

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15225c.htm
  A history of the world in Latin that begins with the Assyrian King Ninius and extends to the year 1229.

• Ursula of the Blessed Virgin, Society of the Sisters of Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15228a.htm
  Religious congregation of women founded in 1606 by the Venerable Anne de Xainctonge. (1587-1612)

• Ursula, Saint, and the Eleven Thousand Virgins

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15225d.htm
  This history rests on ten lines, and these are open to question.

• Ursulines of Quebec, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15229a.htm
  The oldest institution of learning for women in North America.

• Ursulines, The

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15228b.htm
  Founded by St. Angela de Merici.

• Ursus, Saint

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15230a.htm
  Member of the Theban Legion, martyr, commemorated from very early times.

• Urubamba

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15230b.htm
  This prefecture apostolic was created by a Decree of the Holy See in 1899 at the request of the Peruvian Government.

• Uruguay

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15230c.htm
  The smallest independent state in South America.

• Uruguayana

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15233a.htm
  Diocese; suffragan of Porto Alegre, Brazil.

• Ushaw College

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15233b.htm
  A combined college and seminary for the six dioceses that were comprised in the old Northern Vicariate of England.

• Usilla

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15235a.htm
  A titular see of Byzacena in Africa.

• Usuard, Martyrology of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15235b.htm
  A Benedictine monk of the Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prxs, Paris.

• Usury

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15235c.htm
  Defines the church's view on money lending.

• Ut Queant Laxis Resonare Fibris

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15244a.htm
  The first line of a hymn in honour of St. John the Baptist.

• Utah

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15238a.htm
  The thirty-second state admitted to the Union, takes its name from an Indian tribe known as the Utes.

• Uthina

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15241a.htm
  A titular see of Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.

• Utica

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15241b.htm
  A titular see in Africa Proconsularis.

• Utilitarianism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15241c.htm
  A modern form of the Hedonistic ethical theory which teaches that the end of human conduct is happiness, and that consequently the discriminating norm which distinguishes conduct into right and wrong is pleasure and pain.

• Utopia

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15243a.htm
  A term used to designate a visionary or an ideally perfect state of society first used by Sir Thomas More.

• Utraquism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15244b.htm
  The principal dogma, and one of the four articles, of the Calixtines or Hussites.

• Utrecht, Archdiocese of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15245a.htm
  Situated in the Netherlands, includes the Provinces of Utrecht, Friesland, Overyssel, Drenthe, Groningen, the larger part of Gelderland, and a small part of North Holland.

 

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