Bathurst Diocese (Canada)

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Bathurst Diocese (Canada)
Basic data
Country Canada
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Moncton
Diocesan bishop Daniel Jodoin
founding 1860
surface 18,770 km²
Parishes 56 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Residents 103,994 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics 93,994 (2015 / AP 2016 )
proportion of 90.4%
Diocesan priest 32 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious priest 3 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics per priest 2,686
Friars 3 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious sisters 135 (2015 / AP 2016 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
French
cathedral Cathédrale Sacré-Coeur
Website www.diocesebathurst.ca

The Diocese of Bathurst ( Latin Dioecesis Bathurstensis in Canada , French Diocèse de Bathurst , English Diocese of Bathurst in Canada ) is one in Canada situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in Bathurst .

history

Sacre Coeur Cathedral in Bathurst

The Diocese of Bathurst was on May 8, 1860 by Pope Pius IX. from the cession of territory by the diocese of Saint John in America as the diocese of Chatham and subordinated to the archdiocese of Halifax as a suffragan . The diocese Chatham gave on February 22, 1936 parts of its territory to establish the Archdiocese of Moncton , to which it was subordinated as a suffragan. On March 13, 1938, the Diocese of Chatham was renamed the Diocese of Bathurst . The Diocese of Bathurst gave on December 16, 1944 parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Edmundston .

Ordinaries

Bishops of Chatham

Bishops of Bathurst

See also

Web links

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