ABSTRACT
The islands of Bermuda, a small British colony of approximately 60,000 people and just over twenty square miles in land area, have enjoyed continuous settlement since 1609, but no formal Roman Catholic presence was established there until well into the nineteenth century. Catholic settlement was discouraged by a requirement that settlers swear an oath of loyalty to the Church of England and by widespread local intolerance toward the Roman Church. By 1800 the islands had only six Catholic residents. 1
