Diocese of Pembroke

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Diocese of Pembroke
Basic data
Country Canada
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall
Diocesan bishop Guy Desrochers CSsR
founding 1882
surface 20,000 km²
Parishes 48 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 152,600 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 75,600 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 49.5%
Diocesan priest 44 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 19 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,200
Permanent deacons 13 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 21 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 146 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
French
cathedral St. Columbkille Cathedral
Website [1]
Coat of arms of the diocese of Pembroke

The Diocese of Pembroke ( Latin Dioecesis Pembrokensis , English Diocese of Pembroke , French Diocèse de Pembroke ) is a in Canada situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Pembroke .

history

The diocese of Pembroke was on July 11, 1882 by Pope Leo XIII. Erected from cessions of territory by the dioceses of Ottawa and Trois Rivières and the Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface as the Apostolic Vicariate of Pontiac . On May 4, 1898 the Apostolic Vicariate Pontiac was by Leo XIII. raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of Pembroke . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Ottawa as a suffragan . The diocese of Pembroke gave up on September 21, 1908 parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Vicariate Temiskaming .

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Pontiac

Bishops of Pembroke

See also

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