Hearst-Moosonee diocese
| Hearst-Moosonee diocese | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Canada |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall |
| Diocesan bishop | Robert Bourgon |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Vincent Cadieux OMI |
| surface | 1,008,830 km² |
| Parishes | 34 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 63,335 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 30,777 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 48.6% |
| Diocesan priest | 15 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 4 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,620 |
| Permanent deacons | 1 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 4 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 3 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language |
English French |
| cathedral | Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption |
| Website | www.hearstdiocese.com |
The diocese of Hearst Moosonee ( Latin Dioecesis Hearstensis-Musonitana , English Diocese of Hearst Moosonee , French Diocèse de Hearst Moosonee ) is in Canada situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Hearst .
history
The Diocese of Hearst was founded on April 18, 1918 by Pope Benedict XV. established from cession of territory by the Diocese of Haileybury as the Apostolic Prefecture of Northern Ontario . The Apostolic Prefecture of Northern Ontario was founded on November 17, 1920 by Benedict XV. raised to the apostolic vicariate . On December 3, 1938, the Apostolic Vicariate gave parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Vicariate James Bay . The Vicariate Apostolic Northern Ontario was founded on December 3, 1938 by Pope Pius XI. raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese Hearst . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Ottawa as a suffragan .
On December 3, 2018, Pope Francis ordered the unification of the diocese with the Diocese of Moosonee and the renaming to the Diocese of Hearst-Moosonee. The previous Bishop of Hearst, Robert Bourgon , was appointed bishop of the united diocese, which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Ottawa as a suffragan. For the area of the previous diocese Moosonee this meant a change of the church province.
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Northern Ontario
- 1918–1920 Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Hallé
Vicars Apostolic of Northern Ontario
- 1920–1938 Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Hallé
Bishops of Hearst
- 1938–1939 Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Hallé
- 1939–1940 Joseph Charbonneau , then Coadjutor Archbishop of Montréal
- 1940–1945 Albini LeBlanc , then Bishop of Gaspé
- 1946–1952 Georges-Léon Landry
- 1952–1964 Louis Lévesque , then Coadjutor Archbishop of Rimouski
- 1964–1971 Jacques Landriault , then Bishop of Timmins
- 1973–1993 Roger-Alfred Despatie
- 1993-1995 Pierre Fisette PME
- 1996-2005 André Vallée PME
- 2007-2016 Vincent Cadieux OMI
- 2016– Robert Bourgon
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of Hearst (English / French)
- Entry for the Hearst-Moosonee diocese on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbourgon.html
- ↑ Fusione delle diocesi di Hearst e Moosonee (Canada) nell'unica circoscrizione di Hearst-Moosonee e nomina del primo Vescovo. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , December 3, 2018, accessed December 3, 2018 (Italian).