Diocese of Victoria (Canada)
| Diocese of Victoria (Canada) | |
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| Country | Canada |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Vancouver |
| Diocesan bishop | Gary M. Gordon |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Remi Joseph De Roo |
| founding | July 24, 1846 |
| surface | 33,197 km² |
| Parishes | 30 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Residents | 737,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics | 99,400 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| proportion of | 13.5% |
| Diocesan priest | 32 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious priest | 14 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 2.161 |
| Friars | 18 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 59 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | St. Andrew Cathedral |
| Website | www.rcdvictoria.org |
The Diocese of Victoria ( Latin Dioecesis Victoriensis in Insula Vancouver ) is a in Canada situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Victoria .
history
The diocese of Victoria was on July 24, 1846 by Pope Pius IX. established from cession of territory by the Vicariate Apostolic Oregon Territory as the diocese of Vancouver Island . On December 14, 1863, the diocese gave parts of its territory to found the Vicariate Apostolic British Columbia . Another assignment took place on July 27, 1894 to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Alaska .
The diocese of Vancouver Island was on June 19, 1903 by Pope Leo XIII. raised to the archbishopric. This archbishopric was renamed Archdiocese of Victoria on September 6, 1904 and was demoted to diocese on October 1, 1908 by Pope Pius X.
The Diocese of Victoria is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Vancouver as a suffragan .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Vancouver Island
- 1846–1871 Modeste Demers
- 1873–1878 Charles-Jean Seghers , then Coadjutor Archbishop of Oregon City
- 1879–1883 Jean-Baptiste Brondel
- 1884–1886 Charles-Jean Seghers
- 1888–1897 Jean-Nicolas Lemmens
- 1898–1899 Alexander Christie , then Archbishop of Oregon City
- 1900–1903 Bertram Orth
Archbishop of Vancouver Island
- 1903–1904 Bertram Orth
Archbishop of Victoria
- 1904–1908 Bertram Orth
Bishops of Victoria
- 1908-1923 Alexander MacDonald
- 1923–1929 Thomas O'Donnell , then Coadjutor Archbishop of Halifax
- 1930–1934 Gerald Murray CSsR , then Bishop of Saskatoon
- 1934–1936 John Hugh MacDonald , then Coadjutor Archbishop of Edmonton
- 1936–1946 John Christopher Cody , then Coadjutor Bishop of London
- 1946–1962 James Michael Hill
- 1962–1999 Remi Joseph De Roo
- 1999–2004 Raymond Roussin SM , then Archbishop of Vancouver
- 2004–2013 Richard Joseph Gagnon , then Archbishop of Winnipeg
- 2014– Gary M. Gordon
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of Victoria (English)
- Entry for the Diocese of Victoria on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)