Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall
| Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Canada |
| Diocesan bishop | Terrence Thomas Prendergast SJ |
| Coadjutor | Marcel Damphousse |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Marcel André J. Gervais |
| Vicar General | Patrick Powers Kevin Beach |
| founding | 1847 |
| surface | 5,818 km² |
| Parishes | 107 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 922.014 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 441,798 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 47.9% |
| Diocesan priest | 116 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 167 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,561 |
| Permanent deacons | 86 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 180 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 495 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language |
English French |
| cathedral | Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Ottawa |
| Website | www.ecclesia-ottawa.org |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Hearst-Moosonee Diocese of Pembroke Diocese of Timmins |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall ( Latin Archidioecesis Ottaviensis-Cornubiensis , English Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall , French archidiocèse d'Ottawa-Cornwall ) is a in Canada situated Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Ottawa .
history
The Archdiocese of Ottawa was on June 25, 1847 by Pope Pius IX. built from cessions of territory by the dioceses of Kingston and Montréal as the diocese of Bytown . The diocese of Bytown was renamed on June 14, 1860 in the Diocese of Ottawa . On July 11, 1882, the Diocese of Ottawa gave parts of its territory to the establishment of the Vicariate Apostolic Pontiac .
The diocese of Ottawa was on June 8, 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. raised to the archbishopric. The Archdiocese of Ottawa gave on April 21, 1913 parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Mont-Laurier . Further assignments were made on June 23, 1951 to found the diocese of Saint-Jérôme and on April 27, 1963 to found the diocese of Hull .
On May 6, 2020, Pope Francis ordered the unification of the Archdiocese with the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall and the renaming to the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall. The previous Archbishop of Ottawa, Terrence Thomas Prendergast SJ , has been named Archbishop of the Unified Archdiocese.
Ordinaries
Cathedral Notre-Dame-d'Ottawa
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Bishops of Bytown
- 1847–1860 Joseph-Eugène-Bruno Guigues OMI
Bishops of Ottawa
- 1860–1874 Joseph-Eugène-Bruno Guigues OMI
- 1874–1886 Joseph-Thomas Duhamel
Archbishops of Ottawa
- 1886–1909 Joseph-Thomas Duhamel
- 1910–1922 Charles-Hugues Gauthier
- 1922–1927 Joseph-Médard Émard
- 1928–1940 Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes
- 1940–1953 Alexandre Vachon
- 1953–1966 Marie-Joseph Lemieux OP , then titular Archbishop of Saldae
- 1967–1989 Joseph-Aurèle Plourde
- 1989–2007 Marcel André Gervais
- 2007–2020 Terrence Thomas Prendergast SJ
Archbishops of Ottawa-Cornwall
- since 2020 Terrence Thomas Prendergast SJ
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall (English / French)
- Entry for the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall on catholic-hierarchy.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fusione dell'Arcidiocesi di Ottawa e della Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall (Canada) e nomina dell'Arcivescovo e del coadiutore della nuova circoscrizione ecclesiastica di Ottawa-Cornwall. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , May 6, 2020, accessed May 6, 2020 (Italian).