Diocese of Timmins
| Diocese of Timmins | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Canada |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall |
| Diocesan bishop | Serge Poitras |
| founding | 1908 |
| surface | 26,200 km² |
| Parishes | 25 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Residents | 95,370 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics | 57,510 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| proportion of | 60.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 13 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 4 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 3,383 |
| Permanent deacons | 4 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Friars | 8 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 10 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language |
English French |
| cathedral | Cathédrale Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue |
| Website | www.dioctims.ca |
The Diocese of Timmins ( Latin Dioecesis Timminsensis , English Diocese of Timmins , French Diocèse de Timmins ) is in Canada situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Timmins .
history
The diocese of Timmins was established on September 21, 1908 by Pope Pius X from cession of territory of the diocese of Pembroke as the Apostolic Vicariate Temiskaming . On December 31, 1915, the Apostolic Vicariate Temiskaming by Pope Benedict XV. raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of Haileybury . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Ottawa as a suffragan . The diocese of Haileybury gave on April 18, 1919 parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Northern Ontario . Further assignments of territory took place on December 3, 1938 to found the Diocese of Amos and to found the Apostolic Vicariate of James Bay .
On December 10, 1938, the Diocese of Haileybury was renamed the Diocese of Timmins . The Diocese of Timmins gave on November 29, 1973 parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Rouyn-Noranda .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Temiskaming
- 1908–1915 Élie Anicet Latulipe
Bishops of Haileybury
- 1915–1922 Élie Anicet Latulipe
- 1923–1938 Louis Rhéaume OMI
Bishops of Timmins
- 1938–1955 Louis Rhéaume OMI
- 1955–1971 Maxime Tessier
- 1971–1990 Jacques Landriault
- 1992–1997 Gilles Cazabon OMI, then Bishop of Saint-Jérôme
- 1999-2011 Paul Marchand SMM
- 2012– Serge Poitras