Peterborough Bishopric
Peterborough Bishopric | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Canada |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Kingston |
Diocesan bishop | Daniel Miehm |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Nicola de Angelis CFIC |
founding | 1882 |
surface | 25,900 km² |
Parishes | 40 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 456,963 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 59,642 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 13.1% |
Diocesan priest | 60 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 13 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 817 |
Permanent deacons | 13 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 13 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 74 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
cathedral | Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains |
Website | www.peterboroughdiocese.org |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough ( Latin Dioecesis Peterboroughensis , English Diocese of Peterborough ) is in Canada situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in Peterborough .
history
The diocese of Peterborough was on January 25, 1874 by Pope Pius IX. Established from cession of territory by the Diocese of Kingston as Vicariate Apostolic Northern Canada . The Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Canada was on July 11, 1882 by Pope Leo XIII. raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of Peterborough . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Kingston as a suffragan . The Diocese of Peterborough gave on September 16, 1904 parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Northern Canada
- 1874–1882 Jean-François Jamot
Bishops of Peterborough
- 1882–1886 Jean-François Jamot
- 1886–1889 Thomas Joseph Dowling , then Bishop of Hamilton
- 1889–1913 Richard Alphonsus O'Connor
- 1913–1929 Richard Michael Joseph O'Brien , then Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston
- 1930-1942 Dennis P. O'Connor
- 1943–1945 John Roderick MacDonald , then Coadjutor Bishop of Antigonish
- 1945–1953 Joseph Gerald Berry , then Archbishop of Halifax
- 1954–1968 Benjamin Ibberson Webster
- 1968–1975 Francis Anthony Marrocco
- 1976-2002 James Leonard Doyle
- 2002-2014 Nicola de Angelis CFIC
- 2014–2017 William Terrence McGrattan , then Bishop of Calgary
- 2017– Daniel Miehm
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of Peterborough (English)
- Entry on the Diocese of Peterborough on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)