Diocese of Pembroke
Diocese of Pembroke | |
Basic data | |
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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] |
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
- 1882–1898 Narcisse Zéphirin Lorrain
Bishops of Pembroke
- 1898–1915 Narcisse Zéphirin Lorrain
- 1916–1937 Patrick Thomas Ryan
- 1937-1945 Charles Leo Nelligan
- 1945–1971 William Joseph Smith
- 1971–1993 Joseph Raymond Windle
- 1993–2000 Brendan Michael O'Brien , then Archbishop of Saint John's, Newfoundland
- 2002–2007 Richard William Smith , then Archbishop of Edmonton
- 2007–2019 Michael Mulhall
- since 2020 Guy Desrocher's CSsR
See also
Web links
- Homepage (English / French)
- Entry on the diocese of Pembroke on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)