Military Ordinariate of Canada
Military Ordinariate of Canada Ordinariatus Militaris Canadensis Ordinariat militaire du Canada | |
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Location | |
Country | Canada |
Ecclesiastical province | Immediately exempt to the Holy See |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Multiple (primarily the Roman Rite) |
Established | 17 February 1951 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Scott McCaig, C.C. |
The Military Ordinariate of Canada (
It is immediately
Statistics
Catholic chaplains provide a wide range of religious and spiritual services to Canadian Armed Forces members and their families, such as the celebration of the Sacraments, counselling and religious formation. As per 2014, it provides
History
The
The need to appoint a bishop was only felt during the
On 1986.07.21 it was promoted as Military Ordinariate of Canada. Since the promulgation of the apostolic constitution Spirituali militum curae by Pope John Paul II, the administration of chaplaincies was made much easier.
Sex abuse controversies
On 7 September 2020, Canadian Armed Forces spokesman Maj. Travis Smyth acknowledged that Capt. Jean El-Dahdouh, a Montreal-based Maronite Order military chaplain found guilty the previous year of assault and sexual assault after a series of incidents at the upscale Nordik Spa-Nature in Chelsea, Quebec, was still a member of the Canadian military, but he was now expected to soon be released from the armed forces.[2] On 16 November 2020, documents which the Canadian Forces sought keep sealing for 40 years were public. The documents revealed that Canadian Forces knew that Catholic Chaplain Capt. Angus McRae had victims before his 1980 sex abuse conviction for children to his quarters at an Edmonton military base and gave them alcohol before sexually assaulting them.[3]
Episcopal office holders
It twice had an
- Norman Joseph Gallagher (1963.06.25 – 1966)
- Titular Bishop of Nova (1967.04.01 – 1970.08.17), next Bishop of Charlottetown(Canada) (1970.08.17 – 1982.03.14)
Military Bishops
- Titular Bishop of Phœnice(1945.05.19 – 1970.11.16), died 1974
- Québec(Canada) (1947.06.02 – retired 1981.03.20)
Military Vicars
- Committee for the Family(1973.01.11 – 1976.12.16)
- Francis John Spence (see above appointed 21 July 1986 – see below' became first Military Ordinary 21 July 1986)
Military Ordinaries
- Kingston(Canada) (1982.04.24 – 2002.04.27), later President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (1995–1997)
- Superior Generalof Society of Foreign Missions (1973.07.05 – 1979.06.05)
- Donald Thériault (appointed 25 March 1998 – retired 2016.04.08), no other office
- General Superiorof Companions of the Cross (2006 – 2016.04.08)
See also
- List of Catholic dioceses in Canada
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA § Patron saints
- Royal Canadian Chaplain Service
References
- ^ a b c d e "Military Ordinariate of Military Ordinariate of Canada, Canada". gcatholic.org.
- ^ Pugliese, David (September 7, 2020). "Canadian Forces chaplain convicted in sex assault case to be kicked out of military". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
- ^ Pugliese, David (November 16, 2020). "Records military fought to keep secret show pedophile priest had multiple child victims". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
Sources and external links
- GCatholic.org, with Google map and satellite photo
- Roman Catholic Military Ordinariate of Canada (Official Website)
- Diocèse militaire du Canada. Missa.org (in French)
- Military Chaplaincy
- Military Ordinariate of Canada (Catholic-Hierarchy)