Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas
| Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas | |
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| Country | Canada |
| Diocesan bishop | Murray Chatlain |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Sylvain Lavoie OMI |
| founding | March 4, 1910 |
| surface | 430,000 km² |
| Parishes | 46 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 119,889 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 47,520 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 39.6% |
| Diocesan priest | 3 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 11 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 3,394 |
| Friars | 11 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Cathedral |
| Website | www.dioceseofkeewatinlepas.ca |
| Suffragan dioceses | Diocese of Churchill-Baie d'Hudson |
The Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas ( Latin Archidioecesis Kivotina-Passitana , English Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas , also Archdiocese of Keewatin-The Pas , French Archidiocèse de Keewatin-Le Pas ) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese based in The Pas (Canada ).
history
The archbishopric was established on March 4, 1910 by Pope Pius X from cession of territory of the diocese Prince-Albert as Apostolic Vicariate Keewatin . The Apostolic Vicariate Keewatin gave on July 15, 1925 parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Hudson Bay . On July 13, 1967, the Vicariate Apostolic Keewatin was by Pope Paul VI. raised to the archbishopric and renamed the archbishopric Keewatin-Le Pas .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Keewatin
- 1910-1933 Ovid Charlebois OMI
- 1933–1954 Martin Joseph-Honoré LaJeunesse OMI
- 1955–1967 Paul Dumouchel OMI
Archbishops of Keewatin-Le Pas
- 1967–1986 Paul Dumouchel OMI
- 1986-2006 Peter Alfred Sutton OMI
- 2006–2012 Sylvain Lavoie OMI
- 2012– Murray Chatlain
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas (English)
- Entry on the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)