Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston (Canada)
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston (
archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Canada that includes part of the federal Province of Ontario in southeastern Canada
.
Its
St. Mary's Cathedral, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in Kingston, Ontario
.
Ecclesiastical province
Its
suffragan
sees are:
History
- Established on 1819.01.12 as Roman Catholic Diocese of Québec.
- Promoted as Diocese of Kingston on 27 January 1826, as a suffragan diocese of the (meanwhile promoted)
- Lost territory repeatedly : on 1841.12.17 to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Canada (now suffragan Diocese of Peterborough) and on 1882.07.11 lost territory to the existent Diocese of Peterborough;
- Promoted to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kingston on 28 December 1889.[2]
- Lost territory again on 1890.01.21 to establish the Diocese of Alexandria in Ontario.[3]
Statistics
As of 2014[update], it pastorally served 123,800 Catholics (36.4% of 340,000 total) on 16,500 km2 in 50 parishes with 79 priests (70 diocesan, 9 religious), 29 deacons, 149 lay religious (9 brothers, 140 sisters) and 5 seminarians.[3]
As of 2004[update], the archdiocese has 52 parishes, 79 active diocesan priests, 7 religious priests and 120,000 Catholics, 165 Women Religious, 11 Religious Brothers and 17 permanent deacons.[4]
Bishops
Bishops of the diocese
- Apostolic Vicar of Upper Canada
- Alexander MacDonell (born Scotland, UK) (1819.01.12 – 27 January 1826 see below) Resaina(1819.01.12 – 1826.01.27)
- Suffragan Bishops of Kingston :
- Alexander MacDonell (see above 27 January 1826 – death 1840)
- Coadjutor Bishopof Kingston (1852 – 1857.05.08)
- Patrick Phelan (born Ireland) (1857.05.08 – death 1857.06.07)
- Titular Bishop of Chrysopolis in Arabia(1874.06.16 – died 1875.02.15)
- John O'Brien (1875.02.12 – death 1879.08.01)
- James Vincent Cleary (1880.10.01 – 1889.12.28 see below) (born Ireland)
- Metropolitan Archbishops of Kingston :
- James Vincent Cleary (see above 1889.12.28 – death 1898.02.24)[5]
- Ottawa(Ontario, Canada) (1910.09.06 – death 1922.01.19)
- Michael Joseph Spratt (1911.07.17 – death 1938.02.23)
- Coadjutor Archbishopof Kingston (Canada) (1929.05.17 – 1938.02.23)
- Joseph Anthony O'Sullivan (1944.02.26 – 1966.12.14), previously Bishop of Charlottetown (Canada) (1931.02.06 – 1944.02.26); emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Maraguia (1966.12.14 – resigned 1970.11.23), died 1972
- Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Calgary(BC, Canada) (1963.06.25 – 1966.12.14)
- Military Vicariate of Canada (1967.04.01 – 1970.08.17), Bishop of Charlottetown(Canada) (1970.08.17 – 1982.03.14), Military Vicar of Canada (Canada) (1982.03.14 – 1986.07.21); died 2011
- Anthony G. Meager (2002.04.27 – death 2007.01.14), previously Titular Bishop of Dura (1997.04.30 – 2002.04.27) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Toronto (Canada) (1997.04.30 – 2002.04.27)
- St. John’s, Newfoundland(Canada) (2000.12.04 – 2007.06.01), President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (2003 – 2005).
- Michael Mulhall (2019.03.28 - )[3]
Coadjutor bishops
- Thomas Weld (1826-1830), did not succeed to the see; future Cardinal
- John Larkin (1832; did not take effect)
- John Murdoch (1833; did not take effect)
- Rémi Gaulin (1833-1840)
- Patrick Phelan, P.S.S. (1843-1852; apostolic administrator, 1852-1857)
- Michael Joseph O'Brien (1929-1938)
- Other priest of this diocese who became Bishop
- Fergus Patrick McEvay, appointed Bishop of London in 1899
See also
References
- ^ "Kingston". Catholic Encyclopedia.
- ^ "History of the Archdiocese". Archdiocese of Kingston. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
- ^ a b c http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/king0.htm GCatholic
- ^ *Archdiocese of Kingston Catholic-Hierarchy.org retrieved July 13, 2006
- ^ Price, Brian J. (1990). "Cleary, James Vincent". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XII (1891–1900) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
Sources and external links
- Archdiocese of Kingston — official site
- Quinn, Stanley John (1910). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- GCatholic, with Google map & satellite photo - data for all sections