Catholic Encyclopedia - Z
- Zádori, János:
(DREXLER).
Ecclesiastical writer, born at Katloez, County of ...
- Zängerle, Roman Sebastian:
Prince- Bishop ...
- Zabarella, Francesco:
Cardinal, celebrated canonist, born at Padua, 10 August, 1360; died at ...
- Zabulon:
One of the twelve sons of
- Zacatecas:
(DE ZACATECAS).
Diocese in the Republic of Mexico, suffragan ...
- Zaccaria, Francesco Antonio:
Theologian, historian, and prolific writer, born at Venice, 27 March, 1714; died ...
- Zacconi, Ludovico:
Musical theorist, born at
- Zacharias:
( Hebrew zekharyahu and zekharyah ; meaning "
- Zacharias Chrysopolitanus:
A famous exegete of the Premonstratensian Order ; born at
- Zachary, Canticle of:
The Benedictus, given in
- Zachary, Pope Saint:
(ZACHARIAS.)
Reigned 741-52. Year of birth unknown; died in ...
- Zahle and Forzol:
A Greco-Melchite diocese. In the seventeenth, or perhaps in the sixteenth, ...
- Zakho:
A diocese of ...
- Zallinger zum Thurn, Jacob Anton:
Philosopher and canonist, born at Bozen, 26 July, 1735, died there, 11 January, ...
- Zallwein, Gregor:
Canonist, born at Oberviechtach, Oberpfalz, 20 October, 1712; died at Salzburg, 6 ...
- Zalvidea, José Maria de:
Born at Bilbao, Vizeaya, Spain, 2 March, 1780; d. in 1846. He became a ...
- Zama:
Titular see of Numidia. There were two sees of this name:
- Zambesi Mission:
The prefecture comprises all
- Zamboanga, Diocese of:
(ZAMBOANGENSIS).
Philippine Islands. It includes the islands ...
- Zamboni, Giuseppe:
Priest and physicist, born at Venice, June, 1776; died there 25 July 1846. ...
- Zamora:
(ZAMORENSIS), suffragan of Valladolid. It is bounded on the north by Leon, on the ...
- Zamora:
(ZAMORENSIS).
The
- Zamora:
Vicariate Apostolic in South Ecuador, created 3 February, 1893, by Leo XIII. The ...
- Zampieri, Domenico:
Properly DOMENICO ZAMPIERI.
An Italian painter, born in ...
- Zante:
(ZACYNTHOS).
This Greek diocese, the only suffragan of the ...
- Zantedeschi, Francesco:
Priest and physicist, born 1797; died at Padua, 29 March, 1873. For some
- Zanzibar:
At a very remote unknown period the eastern coast of
- Zapoteca Indians:
A powerful and numerous Mexican tribe located chiefly in
- Zara:
(JADERA).
Located in Dalmatia.
- Zarai:
Titular see of Numidia in Africa, mentioned by the "Itinerarium Antonini", 35, and ...
- Zarlino, Gioseffe:
Italian musical theorist, born at Chioggia in 1517; died at Venice, 4 ...
- Zasius, Ulric:
A famous jurist, born at
- Zeal:
(From delos , a derivative of deo "to boil", to "throb with heat"), is "a ...
- Zegers, Nicholas Tacitus:
Famous exegete, born either at Diest or
- Zela:
Titular see of
- Zell, Karl:
Statesman, philologist, and defender of the rights of the Church, b. at ...
- Zell, Ulrich:
Publisher, the first printer of Cologne, born at Hanau-on-the-Main, date ...
- Zengg-Modrus:
(SEGNIENSIS ET MOD-RUSIENSIS SEU CORBAVIENSIS).
Located in
- Zeno of Elea:
Greek philosopher, born at Elea, about 490 B.C. At his birthplace Xenophanes and ...
- Zeno, Saint:
Entered in the Roman
- Zenobius, Saint:
Bishop of
- Zenonopolis:
Titular see of
- Zephaniah:
The ninth of the twelve
- Zephyrinus, Pope Saint:
(Reigned 198-217).
Date of birth unknown; died 20 Dec., 217. ...
- Zephyrium:
A titular see in Cilicia Prima, of Tarsus. Nothing is known of the history of ...
- Zeugma:
A titular see of Syria, suffragan of Hierapolis, in the Province of the ...
- Zeuss, Johann Kaspar:
Born at Vogtendorf, in Upper Franconia, 22 July, 1806; d. there, 10 Nov., 1856. He ...
- Ziegelbauer, Magnoald:
Historian, born at Ellwangen, Swabia, 1689; died at Olmütz, 14 January, 1750. ...
- Ziegler, Gregorius Thomas:
Bishop of Linz, born at Kirchheim near Augsburg, 7 March, 1770; died at Linz, 15 ...
- Zierikzee, Cornelius van:
Born at Zierikzee (whence he takes his surname), a town in the Province of ...
- Zigliara, Tommaso Maria:
( Baptismal name, FRANCESCO).
Cardinal, theologian, and ...
- Zimmer, Patrick Benedict:
Philosopher and theologian, b. at Abtsgmund, Wurtenberg, 22 Feb., 1752; d. at ...
- Zingarelli, Niccolò Antonio:
Composer, born at Naples, 4 April, 1752; died at Torre del Greco, 5 May, 1837. ...
- Zingerle, Pius:
Celebrated Orientalist, born at Meran, in the Tyrol, 17 March, 1801; died at the ...
- Zionists:
Zionists are ...
- Zionites:
A sect of visionary fanatics which flourished in the eighteenth century at ...
- Zips:
(SZEPES; SCEPUSIENSIS).
A
- Zircz:
ZIRCENSIS or BOCCON.
Cistercian abbey, situated in the
- Zita's Home for Friendless Women, Saint:
Founded at 158 East 24th Street, New York, by Ellen O'Keefe (Mother Zita) in 1890. ...
- Zita, Saint:
Model and heavenly patroness of domestic servants, born early in the thirteenth ...
- Zoara:
A titular see of Palestina Tertia. It is the ancient Bala or Segor, one of the ...
- Zoega, Jörgen:
(GEORGE).
Archaeologist and numismatist, born at Daler near ...
- Zolkiewski, Stanislaus:
Chancellor of Poland, born in Tuyrnka (Red
- Zonaras, John:
Byzantine chronicler and canonist, lived from the latter part of the eleventh to ...
- Zoque Indians:
A Mexican tribe dwelling in the western part of Chipas, north of the Sierra Madre, ...
- Zosimus:
Byzantine historian of the fifth and sixth century; dates of birth and death ...
- Zosimus, Pope Saint:
(Reigned 417-18).
Year of birth unknown; died 27 December, ...
- Zuñi Indians:
A Pueblo tribe residing at Zuñi on the bank of the Rio Zuñi near the ...
- Zucchetto:
( zucca , head).
The small, round skullcap of the ...
- Zulia, Diocese of:
(Zuliensis.) Comprises the State of Zulia in the Republic of Venezuela. The
- Zululand:
A territory in South
- Zumárraga, Juan de:
Born at
- Zurbaran, Francisco:
Born in the suburb of Fuente de Cantos in Estramadure, on the boundaries of ...
- Zurich:
The capital of the Swiss canton of the same name which is the second largest and ...
- Zurla, Giacinto Placido:
Cardinal Vicar ...
- Zwettl:
(CLARAVALLIS AUSTRIAE).
A filiation of Heiligenkreuz, of the ...
- Zwingli, Ulrich:
(Also, Huldreich )
Founder of the Reformation in ...
- Zwirner, Ernst Friedrich:
Architect, born at Jakobswalde in
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