The Diocese of Gibraltar

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Excerpt from The Diocese of Gibraltar: A Sketch of Its History, Work and TasksRom Oporto and Lisbon on the Atlantic to Baku on the west shore of the Caspian is a distance by rail of over four thousand miles. Scattered over this vast tract of Southern Europe, on the shores of the Mediterranean and the Black Seas and in the Levant are communities of English people, some dating from the earlier part of the sixteenth century, some from yesterday. Varying greatly in numbers, occupation, character, and history, all are alike in this loyalty to the home-country, and tenacious retention of distinctively English character, life, and religion. With similar colonies on the north coast of Africa from the frontier of Egypt to Tangier and our possessions of Gibraltar and Malta, they are now ecclesiastically under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Gibraltar, and form a diocese of persons, not of a geographical area.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.