Diocese of Baie-Comeau

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Diocese of Baie-Comeau
Map of the Diocese of Baie-Comeau
Basic data
Country Canada
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Rimouski
Diocesan bishop Jean-Pierre Blais
Vicar General Rénald Doyon OMI
founding 1882
surface 148,750 km²
Parishes 55 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
Residents 94,617 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
Catholics 87,860 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
proportion of 92.9%
Diocesan priest 26 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
Religious priest 11 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
Catholics per priest 2,375
Permanent deacons 6 (December 31, 2008 / AP2009 )
Friars 14 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
Religious sisters 59 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Eudes
address Évêché
639 rue de Bretagne
Baie-Comeau, QC G5C 1X2
Canada
Website www.diocese-bc.net
Saint-Jean-Eudes Cathedral in Baie-Comeau

The Diocese of Baie-Comeau ( lat. : Dioecesis sine Comoënsis ) is in Canada situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Baie-Comeau .

history

The diocese of Baie-Comeau was on May 29, 1882 by Pope Leo XIII. from the cession of territory by the Diocese of Rimouski as the Apostolic Prefecture of St. Lawrence Gulf . On September 12, 1905, the Apostolic Prefecture of Saint Lawrence Gulf by Pope Leo XIII. raised to the apostolic vicariate . The Apostolic Vicariate of Saint Lawrence Gulf gave up parts of its territory on July 13, 1945 to establish the Apostolic Vicariate Labrador .

On November 24, 1945, the Apostolic Vicariate Saint Lawrence Gulf was by Pope Pius XII. raised to the diocese. The diocese of St. Lawrence Golf was renamed the Diocese of Hauterive on February 29, 1960 . On July 14, 1986, the name was changed to the Diocese of Baie-Comeau . Parts of the area of ​​the dissolved Diocese Labrador City-Schefferville were annexed to the Diocese of Baie-Comeau on May 31, 2007.

The diocese of Baie-Comeau is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Rimouski as a suffragan .

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefects of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

Vicars Apostolic of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

Bishops of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

Bishops of Hauterive

Bishops of Baie-Comeau

See also

Web links

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