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Propaganda Fide, congregation of

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Propaganda Fide, congregation of, the central government department of the Catholic church, charged with the direction of missionary activity in Protestant and non‐Christian countries. A product of the Counter‐Reformation, it met as a congregation from 1622, centralizing missionary activity in an era of unprecedented European expansion overseas. Because post‐Reformation Ireland did not have a properly established hierarchy it fell under Propaganda's jurisdiction until the curial reforms of 1908. Propaganda's influence was important as it handled Irish affairs which, in normal circumstances, would have been dealt with by the local church hierarchy and other Roman congregations.

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Propaganda Fide, Congregation of

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Propaganda Fide, Congregation of. The Roman Congregation which is concerned with missionary activity throughout the world and with the administration of territories where there is no established hierarchy. It originated in the latter half of the 16th cent. to meet the spiritual needs of the newly discovered heathen populations. In 1988 it was renamed the ‘Congregation for the Evangelization of the Nations’ (Congregatio pro Gentium Evangelizatione).

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