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William Edward Power (September 27, 1915 - November 29, 2003) [1] was consecrated Bishop of the Diocese of Antigonish, Canada on July 20, 1960: installed August 10, 1960: resigned December 17, 1986. Power died in 2003.
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Antigonish is a town in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The town is home to St. Francis Xavier University and the oldest continuous Highland games outside Scotland. It is approximately 160 kilometres northeast of Halifax, the provincial capital.
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is the national assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in Canada. It was founded in 1943, and was officially recognized by the Holy See in 1948. Since the Second Vatican Council, it became part of a worldwide network of episcopal conferences, established in 1965. Until 1977, it was called the Canadian Catholic Conference, when the present name was adopted.
James Morrison was the longest-serving bishop of the Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Although one of the last powerful and austere Roman Catholic bishops in Canada, Morrison presided over a diocese that created one of the most successful Catholic social movements in Canada.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montréal is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Canada. A metropolitan see, its arch episcopal see is the Montreal, Quebec. It includes Montreal and surrounding areas within Quebec.
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toronto is a Roman Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the province of Ontario. Its archbishop is also the ecclesiastical provincial for the dioceses of Hamilton, London, Saint Catharines, and Thunder Bay. The Archbishop is Francis Leo, appointed in February 2023.
The Diocese of Antigonish is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Nova Scotia, Canada. Its current diocesan ordinary is Wayne Joseph Kirkpatrick.
The Diocese of Peterborough is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Ontario, Canada. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario.
Colin Campbell was a Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Rémi Gaulin was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop who spent time in the service of Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis. Plessis ordained Gaulin in 1811 and appointed him curate to Alexander MacDonell in Upper Canada. In 1815 he became a missioner in Nova Scotia. In 1840 he succeeded Macdonnell as bishop of the Diocese of Kingston.
Joseph Vernon Fougère was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the 12th Bishop of Charlottetown.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Corner Brook and Labrador is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland. The Cathedral of the diocese is located in Corner Brook.
John Cameron was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and Bishop of Antigonish.
Colin Francis MacKinnon was a Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop and founder of St. Francis Xavier University and Saint Ninian's Cathedral.
William Fraser was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and the first Bishop of Halifax in Nova Scotia from 1842 until the splitting of the diocese into two dioceses effective September 22, 1844, when William Walsh took formal possession of the Diocese of Halifax. Bishop Fraser, however, remains a celebrated figure in the Canadian Gaelic Bardic poetry composed in his Diocese and is still remembered as a legendary strongman in both his native district of Scotland and in Nova Scotia. In both countries, many tales have been collected of his exploits.
Raymond John Lahey was a Canadian bishop of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of the Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia from 2003 to 2009. Lahey was charged in 2009 with the importation of child pornography. He was suspended from the exercise of his priestly and sacramental functions, resigned as bishop in 2009, and was laicized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.
There have been various cases of sexual abuse in the Diocese of Antigonish on the part of Roman Catholic clergy.
Brian Joseph Dunn is a Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church who is Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth. He was Bishop of Antigonish from 2010 to 2019.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax–Yarmouth is a Latin Church archdiocese that includes part of the civil province of Nova Scotia.
The Anglican dioceses of Ankole and Kigezi are the Anglican presence in (roughly) the ancient Ankole kingdom and the old Kigezi District; they are part of the Church of Uganda. The remaining dioceses of the church are in the areas of Buganda, of Eastern Uganda, of Northern Uganda, and of Rwenzori.
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