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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.
Utraquism
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15244b.htm
The principal dogma, and one of the four articles, of the Calixtines or Hussites.
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.
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.
Uthina
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15241a.htm
A titular see of Africa Proconsularis, suffragan of Carthage.
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.
Ut Queant Laxis Resonare Fibris
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The first line of a hymn in honour of St. John the Baptist.
Usuard, Martyrology of
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15235b.htm
A Benedictine monk of the Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prxs, Paris.
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.
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.
Ursus, Saint
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15230a.htm
Member of the Theban Legion, martyr, commemorated from very early times.
Ursulines of Quebec, The
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15229a.htm
The oldest institution of learning for women in North America.
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.
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)
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.
Urráburu, Juan José
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15225b.htm
Article on this Jesuit thinker, by Antonio Nadal.
Urmiah
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15225a.htm
A residential see in Chaldea, in the Province of Adherbaidjan, Persia.