Diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville
The Diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville ( latin Dioecesis Labradorpolitana-Scheffervillensis , English Diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville ) was one in Canada situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Labrador City .
history
The Diocese of Labrador City Schefferville was on July 13, 1945 by Pope Pius XII. Established from the cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariates of Baie d'Hudson and Saint Lawrence Gulf and the Diocese of Harbor Grace as Vicariate Apostolic Labrador . On July 13, 1967, the Vicariate Apostolic Labrador was by Pope Paul VI. raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of Labrador-Schefferville . The Diocese of Labrador-Schefferville was renamed on April 27, 1987 in the Diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville .
On May 31, 2007, the Diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville by Pope Benedict XVI. dissolved and the territory was annexed to the dioceses of Amos , Baie-Comeau and Corner Brook and Labrador .
The diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville was subordinate to the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas as a suffragan .
The diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville was 906,500 km². In 2004 there were 14,542 Catholics in the area of the Diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville. The diocese was divided into 24 parishes and had 14 priests .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Labrador
- Lionel Scheffer OMI , 1946–1966, Titular Bishop of Isba
Bishops of Labrador-Schefferville
- Henri Légaré OMI, 1967–1972, then Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan
- Peter Alfred Sutton OMI, 1974–1986, then coadjutor archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas
Bishops of Labrador City-Schefferville
- Henri Goudreault OMI, 1987–1996, then Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan
- David Douglas Crosby OMI, 1997-2007, then Bishop of Corner Brook and Labrador
See also
Web links
- Entry on the Diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry on the Diocese of Labrador City-Schefferville on gcatholic.org (English)