Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert

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Diocese of Prince Albert

Dioecesis Principis Albertensis
Location
CountryCanada
Ecclesiastical province Saskatchewan
Population
- Catholics

40,700 (22.1%)
Information
Denomination Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established9 June 1933
CathedralSacred Heart Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Stephen Hero
Metropolitan Archbishop Donald Bolen
Bishops emeritus Blaise-Ernest Morand
Albert Privet Thévenot, M.Afr.
Website
padiocese.ca

The Diocese of Prince-Albert (Latin : Dioecesis Principis Albertensis), in Saskatchewan, is a Latin Catholic suffragan in the western Canadian ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Regina.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is Sacred Heart Cathedral, at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It also has the National Shrine of the Little Flower, in Wakaw, Saskatchewan.

History

[1]

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 40,800 Catholics (20.5% of 198,600 total) on 118,834 km2 in 80 parishes with 62 priests (47 diocesan, 15 religious), 1 deacon, 79 lay religious (15 brothers, 64 sisters) and 2 seminarians.) [1]

Bishops

(all Roman Rite, often members of Latin congregations) [2]

Apostolic Vicar of Saskatchewan
Suffragan Bishop of Prince-Albert (first time)
Suffragan Bishop of Prince-Albert–Saskatoon
Suffragan Bishops of Prince-Albert (again)
Coadjutor bishop

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References

  1. 1 2 "Diocese of Prince Albert, Canada". GCatholic.
  2. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/prin0.htm GCatholic.org