Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton
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The Archdiocese of Edmonton (Latin: Archidioecesis Edmontonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese in the Canadian civil province of Alberta. The archbishop's cathedral see is located in St. Joseph Cathedral, a minor basilica in Edmonton. The Archdiocese of Edmonton is the metropolitan see of its ecclesiastical province, which also contains two suffragan dioceses: the Dioceses of Calgary and Saint Paul in Alberta.
Archdiocese of Edmonton Archidioecesis Edmontonensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Canada |
Ecclesiastical province | Edmonton |
Statistics | |
Area | 81,151 km2 (31,333 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | 1,557,922 368,545 (23.7%) |
Parishes | 129 |
Schools | 10 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 1912-11-30 |
Cathedral | St. Joseph's Basilica |
Secular priests | 96 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Richard William Smith |
Map | |
Website | |
caedm.ca |
On March 22, 2007, Vatican Information Services announced that a Halifax native, Bishop Richard William Smith of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pembroke, Canada, had been appointed as Archbishop of Edmonton by Pope Benedict XVI. On Saturday, July 14, 2012, an official news release from Vatican Information Service (VIS), an arm of the Holy See Press Office, stated that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Gregory Bittman, who until then had been serving as the Judicial Vicar and as Archdiocesan Chancellor, as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Edmonton and Titular Bishop of Caltadria.[1] On February 6, 2018, Pope Francis appointed him the seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Nelson in southeastern British Columbia.[2] He left the Archdiocese of Edmonton and took possession of the Diocese of Nelson on April 25, 2018.