Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland Archidioecesis Sancti Ioannis Terrae Novae | |
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Location | |
Country | Canada |
Territory | Newfoundland and Labrador |
Ecclesiastical province | Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland |
Population - Catholics | 120,135 (49.6%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 30 May 1784; 240 years ago |
Cathedral | Basilica of St. John the Baptist |
Patron saint | St. John the Baptist |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Peter Hundt |
Suffragans | Robert Anthony Daniels Bishop of Grand Falls Bart van Roijen Bishop of Corner Brook and Labrador |
Website | |
rcsj.org |
The Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland (Latin : Archidioecesis Sancti Ioannis Terrae Novae) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is the metropolitan of an ecclesiastical province with two suffragan dioceses: Grand Falls and Corner Brook and Labrador. The current archbishop is the Most Reverend Peter Hundt. The Archdiocese of St. John's is the oldest Roman Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in English-speaking North America.
The Basilica of St. John the Baptist is the cathedral of the archdiocese. The building sits within the St. John's Ecclesiastical District, a National Historic District of Canada.
The future Archdiocese of St. John's was established 30 May 1784 as Catholics in Newfoundland gradually gained religious liberty, made explicit by a public declaration by Governor John Campbell. After a request from Irish merchants in St. John's to Bishop William Egan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, James Louis O'Donel was appointed Prefect Apostolic of Newfoundland, as a pre-diocesan jurisdiction entitled to a titular bishop and exempt, i.e., directly subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province. In addition to O'Donel's personal popularity, one of his qualifications for the position was an ability to preach in Newfoundland Irish.
It was promoted to a Vicariate Apostolic on 5 January 1796 and on 4 June 1847 was elevated to a diocese.
In 1904, St. John's was elevated to an archdiocese.
In July 2021, the Archdiocese of St. John's announced plans to sell off assets in order to compensate victims of the Mount Cashel sex abuse scandal. [1]
For decades, the Archdiocese of St. John's has been tied to sex abuse scandals. In July 2020, Rev. Peter Power, who was originally from the Archdiocese of Toronto, was charged with charges of sexual touching, sexual assault and committing an indecent act involving two teenaged boys, aged 18 and 16 years old at a residence in a small Newfoundland community earlier in the year. [2] Though officially retired, Power was still occasionally active in Catholic ministry when he relocated to Newfoundland. [2] The same month, the Court of Appeal of Newfoundland and Labrador unanimously reversed a 2018 Canadian Supreme ruling and ruled that the Archdiocese of St. John's was liable for the sexual abuse committed at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in the 1950s and 1960s. [3]
# | Image | Name | From | Until |
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Erected: 30 May 1784 | ||||
1 | James Louis O'Donel O.F.M. | 17 May 1784 | → |
# | Image | Name | From | Until |
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Elevated: 5 January 1796 | ||||
1 | James Louis O'Donel O.F.M. | ← | 1 January 1807 | |
2 | Patrick Lambert O.F.M. | 1 January 1807 | 23 September 1816 | |
3 | Thomas Scallan O.F.M. | 23 September 1816 | 7 June 1830 | |
4 | Michael Anthony Fleming O.F.S. | 7 June 1830 | → | |
# | Image | Name | From | Until |
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Elevated: 4 June 1847 | ||||
4 | Michael Anthony Fleming O.F.S. | ← | 14 July 1850 | |
5 | John Thomas Mullock O.F.M. | 14 July 1850 | → | |
# | Image | Name | From | Until |
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Name Changed: 29 February 1856 | ||||
5 | John Thomas Mullock O.F.M. | ← | 29 March 1869 | |
6 | Thomas Joseph Power | 13 May 1870 | 4 December 1893 | |
7 | Michael Francis Howley | 5 January 1895 | → | |
# | Image | Name | From | Until |
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Elevated: 8 February 1904 | ||||
7 | Michael Francis Howley | ← | 15 October 1914 | |
8 | Edward Patrick Roche | 26 February 1915 | 23 September 1950 | |
9 | Patrick James Skinner C.I.M. | 23 January 1951 | 28 March 1979 | |
10 | Alphonsus Liguori Penney | 28 March 1979 | 2 February 1991 | |
11 | James Hector MacDonald C.S.C. | 2 February 1991 | 4 December 2000 | |
12 | Brendan O'Brien | 4 December 2000 | 1 June 2007 | |
13 | Martin William Currie | 18 October 2007 | 12 December 2018 | |
14 | Peter Joseph Hundt | 12 December 2018 | → | |
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