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Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec
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National polity
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Pope
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Primate
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Gérald Lacroix
Gérald Cyprien Lacroix (; born July 27, 1957) is the Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 22 February 2011. He has been a cardinal since 22 February 2014. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop ...
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Apostolic Nuncio
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Ivan Jurkovič
Ivan Jurkovič (born 10 June 1952) is a Slovenian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Apostolic Nuncio to Canada since June 2021. He has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1984 and was the Nuncio to Russia and N ...
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The Canadian Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Canada, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, and has a decentralised structure, meaning each
diocesan
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
bishop is autonomous but under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB; french: Conférence des évêques catholiques du Canada) is the national assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in Canada. It was founded in 1943, and was officially recognized by the Holy ...
. As of 2021, it has the largest number of adherents to a Christian denomination and a religion in Canada, with 29.4% of Canadians (10.8 million) being adherents according to the census in 2021. There are 73 dioceses and about 7,000 priests in Canada.
On a normal Sunday, between 15 and 25 percent of Canada's Catholics attend
Mass
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(15 per cent weekly attenders and another nine per cent monthly).
History
First Catholics in Canada
Catholicism arrived in the territory later known as Canada in 1000, with the landing at
L'Anse aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows ( lit. Meadows Cove) is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the ...
by
Leif Ericson
Leif Erikson, Leiv Eiriksson, or Leif Ericson, ; Modern Icelandic: ; Norwegian: ''Leiv Eiriksson'' also known as Leif the Lucky (), was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to have set foot on continental Nort ...
(whose mother had converted and brought Catholicism to what became the Diocese of
Garðar, Greenland), his sister and at least two brothers, according to the
Vinland Sagas. Beginning in 1013, Norway (presumably also intended to include all her colonies, like
Orkney, as later under
Denmark-Norway), came into
personal union
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with the Kingdom of England, in the rule of
Sweyn Forkbeard.
In 1497, when
John Cabot landed on the same island of
Newfoundland on the
Avalon Peninsula, he raised the Venetian and Papal banners and claimed the land for his sponsor King
Henry VII of England
Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor.
Henry's mother, Margaret Beauf ...
, while recognizing the religious authority of the Catholic Church. A letter of John Day states that Cabot landed on 24 June 1497 and "he landed at only one spot of the mainland, near the place where land was first sighted, and they disembarked there with a crucifix and raised banners with the arms of the Holy Father and those of the King of England".
In 1608,
Samuel de Champlain founded the first Catholic colony in
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is t ...
.
Missionary work among Indigenous peoples began in the early 1610s as a stipulated condition to the colonization projects of the King of France. Historian Robert Choquette credits secular priest Jessé Fleché as the first to perform dozens of baptisms on Indigenous peoples, which impacted the religious landscape of
Mi'kma'ki. Jessé Fleché's ministry was criticized by Jesuits who believed Fleché erred in baptizing neophytes without teaching them the Catholic faith beforehand. In 1611, the
Society of Jesus
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started its missionary work in
Acadia
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. Unlike their predecessor, the Jesuits began their work on Mi'kma'ki by learning the local language and living alongside the
Mi'kmaq
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in order to instruct and convert them to Catholicism.
In 1620,
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (; 1580 – 15 April 1632), was an English politician and colonial administrator. He achieved domestic political success as a member of parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I. He lost m ...
purchased a tract of land in Newfoundland from Sir
William Vaughan and established a colony, calling it Avalon, after the legendary spot where Christianity was introduced to Britain.
In 1627 Calvert brought two Catholic priests to Avalon. This was the first continuous Catholic ministry in
British North America
British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards. English colonisation of North America began in the 16th century in Newfoundland, then further south at Roanoke and Jamestow ...
. Despite the severe religious conflicts of the period, Calvert secured the right of Catholics to practice their religion unimpeded in Newfoundland, and embraced the novel principle of religious tolerance, which he wrote into the Charter of Avalon and the later
Charter of Maryland. The
Colony of Avalon was thus the first
North American jurisdiction to practice religious tolerance.
British Rule in Canada
In the wake of the Canada Conquest in 1759, New France became a British colony. Nevertheless, the Catholic Church continued to grow in Canada due to the flexibility imposed on the British regime in Canada by the
Treaty of Paris (1763)
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the S ...
on sovereigns of the United Kingdom who allowed the favour of the protection of Catholicism and
French-speaking people in Canada. This historical perspective still influences Canadian society today.
Anti-Catholicism
Fears of the Catholic Church were quite strong in the 19th century, especially among
Presbyterian
Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...
and other Protestant Irish immigrants across Canada. In 1853, the
Gavazzi Riots left 10 dead in
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
in the wake of Catholic Irish protest against anti-Catholic speeches by ex-monk
Alessandro Gavazzi
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.
The major flashpoint was public support for Catholic French language schools. Although the
Confederation Agreement of 1867 guaranteed the status of Catholic schools where they had been legalized, disputes erupted in numerous provinces, especially in the
Manitoba Schools Question
The Manitoba Schools Question () was a political crisis in the Canadian province of Manitoba that occurred late in the 19th century, attacking publicly-funded separate schools for Roman Catholics and Protestants. The crisis was precipitated by a se ...
in the 1890s and
Ontario
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in the 1910s. In Ontario,
Regulation 17
Regulation 17 (french: Règlement 17) was a regulation of the Government of Ontario, Canada, designed to limit instruction in French-language Catholic separate schools. The regulation was written by the Ministry of Education and was issued in July ...
was a regulation by the Ontario Ministry of Education, that restricted the use of French as a language of instruction to the first two years of schooling. French Canada reacted vehemently and resisted the implementation of the Regulation. This conflict, which was first rooted in linguistic and cultural questions, transformed into a religious divide. In 1915, Ontario clergy was divided between French Canadian and Irish allegiances, with the Irish supporting the position of the provincial government.
Pope Benedict XV
Pope Benedict XV (Latin: ''Benedictus XV''; it, Benedetto XV), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa, name=, group= (; 21 November 185422 January 1922), was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922. His ...
asked his Canadian representative to study the divide in order to reestablish unity among the Catholic church in the province of Ontario. Regulation 17 is among the reasons why French Canada distanced itself from the war effort, as its young men refused to enlist.
Protestant elements succeeded in blocking the growth of French-language Catholic public schools. The Irish Catholics generally supported the English language position advocated by the Protestants. Despite this, French language education in Ontario continues today in Catholic and public schools.
French versus Irish
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The central theme of Catholic history from the 1840s through the 1920s was the contest for control of the church between the French Canadians, based in Quebec, and the English-speaking Irish Canadians (along with smaller numbers of Catholic Scottish Canadians, English, and others) based in Ontario. The French Catholics saw Catholics in general as God's chosen people (versus Protestants) and the French as more truly Catholic than any other ethnic group. The fact that the Irish Catholics formed coalition with the anti-French Protestants further infuriated the French.
The Irish Catholics collaborated with Protestants inside Canada, on the school issue: they opposed French language Catholic schools. The Irish had a significant advantage since they were favoured by the Vatican. Irish Catholicism was "
ultramontane
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", which meant its adherents professed total obedience to the Pope. By contrast, the French bishops in Canada kept their distance from the Vatican. In the form of
Regulation 17
Regulation 17 (french: Règlement 17) was a regulation of the Government of Ontario, Canada, designed to limit instruction in French-language Catholic separate schools. The regulation was written by the Ministry of Education and was issued in July ...
this became the central issue that finally alienated the French in Quebec from the Canadian Anglophone establishment during the
First World War
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. Ontario's Catholics were led by the Irish Bishop Fallon, who united with the Protestants in opposing French schools. Regulation 17 was repealed in 1927. The French-speakers remain more liberal than the English-speakers to this day, and in addition are also leaving the faith much more quickly.
One by one, the Irish took control of the church in each province except for Quebec. Tensions were
especially high in Manitoba at the end of the 19th century. In
Alberta
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in the 1920s, a new Irish bishop undermined French language Catholic schooling, and removed the Francophile order of teaching sisters.
Newfoundland
In the
Dominion of Newfoundland (which was an independent dominion before joining Canada in 1949), politics was polarized around religious lines, with the Protestants confronting the Irish Catholics.
The future Archdiocese of St. John's was established on 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
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James Louis O'Donel was appointed Prefect Apostolic of Newfoundland. This was the first Roman Catholic
ecclesiastical jurisdiction established in English-speaking North America.
In 1861, the Protestant governor dismissed the Catholic Liberals from office and the ensuing election was marked by riot and disorder with both the
Anglican bishop
Edward Feild
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Early years
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and Catholic bishop
John Thomas Mullock taking partisan stances. The Protestants narrowly elected
Hugh Hoyles
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as the Conservative Prime Minister. Hoyles suddenly reversed his long record of militant Protestant activism and worked to defuse tensions. He shared patronage and power with the Catholics; all jobs and patronage were split between the various religious bodies on a per capita basis. This 'denominational compromise' was further extended to education when all religious schools were put on the basis which the Catholics had enjoyed since the 1840s.
A series of
sexual abuse
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incidents at
Mount Cashel Orphanage
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, a home for boys run by the
Congregation of Christian Brothers
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Their first school was opened i ...
, and a police coverup were disclosed in 1989, resulting in the closure of the facility in 1990 after the last resident was moved to an alternate facility. The property was seized and the site razed and sold for real-estate development in the mid-1990s as part of a court settlement ordering financial compensation to the victims.
Newfoundland's denominational schools were funded by the province until the late 1990s. In the fall of 1998, Newfoundland officially adopted a non-denominational school system, following two referendums and judgements by the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and its Court of Appeal that constitutionally recognized the end of provincially-funded all religious denominational schools.
In July 2021, the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland
The Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland ( la, 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 metropol ...
announced plans to
sell off assets in order to compensate victims of the Mount Cashel sex abuse scandal.
Recent events
Papal visits
In 1984,
John Paul II
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became the first pope to visit Canada. He would visit the country for a total of three times, his final visit being for
World Youth Day 2002
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in Toronto.
Pope Francis
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visited in July 2022 to apologize in the wake of the Indian school scandal.
Decline
Between 2001 and 2013, the population of Canadians identifying as Catholic remained relatively stagnant, with roughly 12.8 million Canadians self-reporting as Catholic. However, Catholics remained the largest single Christian group in Canada. Church attendance across the Canadian Catholic Church is declining as society becomes more irreligious, resulting in
closures of increasing numbers of churches in all
provinces and territories in the country.
Indian schools scandal
The Catholic church ran three-quarters of the 130
Indian schools in Canada, in which more than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend Christian schools with the aim of assimilating them into Canadian society. Disease and hunger was common, and physical and sexual abuse took place, often at the hands of priests and Catholic laypeople.
The church agreed to pay C$29m in compensation to survivors, but has distributed only C$3.9m, citing poor fundraising efforts. During roughly that same period, however, the church raised C$300m for the construction of new church buildings, including cathedrals, and had more than C$4bn in assets.
Prime minister Justin Trudeau expressed frustration that Pope Francis declined to offer an apology for the Catholic church's role in residential schools.
“As a Catholic, I am deeply disappointed by the position that the Catholic church has taken now and over the past many years. We expect the church to step up and take responsibility for its role in this and be there to help with the grieving and healing, including with records.”
Ground penetrating radar has since discovered more than 1,300
unmarked mass graves at former Indian schools. Four out of five were run by the Catholic Church. The resurfacing of the residential schools and gravesites has led some Canadians to leave the church.
Bishop
Donald Bolen
Donald Joseph Bolen (born 7 February 1961), also known as Don Bolen, is a Canadian Catholic prelate. He is the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Regina, since his appointment by Pope Francis on 11 July 2016; having previously served as Bishop of ...
, of Regina, said in 2022 that Catholic involvement in the residential school system had caused deep wounds and trauma. "Relations between First Nation Peoples and the Catholic Church in Canada carry the burden of a complicated history that people are still grappling with. Colonisation and the government-funded Residential Schools System left First Nations Peoples
he earliest known inhabitantswith a legacy of marginalisation, where their languages, cultures, traditions and spirituality were suppressed. Catholic involvement in this system, and the waves of suffering experienced by so many Indigenous Peoples, including physical, cultural, spiritual and sexual abuses, have left deep wounds and trauma. There is much that the Catholic Church, the Canadian government, and society are accountable for." In 2022, during a visit to Canada,
Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...
appologised for the church's role in the scandal.
2021 church burnings
Following the increased public awareness of the graves and residential schools, four Catholic churches on
First Nations reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve (french: réserve indienne) is specified by the ''Indian Act'' as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty,
that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band."
Ind ...
s in western Canada were destroyed by fires that investigators regarded as suspicious. Other churches were damaged by fire and vandalism over June and July 2021, with the burnings drawing condemnation from both the Catholic Church and Canadian indigenous figures.
Population
The Catholic population in Canada in 2001 and 2011.
The Catholic population underwent its first recorded drop between 2001 and 2011. Notable trends include the
de-Catholicization of Quebec, a drop in the Catholic population in small provinces with stagnant populations, and a rise in Catholics in the large English-speaking provinces of Ontario,
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
, and Alberta.
Immigration
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has not helped prevent the decline in the Catholic population; the only major source of Catholic immigrants to Canada is the
Philippines
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. There are also adherents of
Eastern Catholic Churches
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who had already migrated to Canada, most notably the
Ukrainians
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.
Organization
The Catholic Community in Canada is
decentralised, meaning each diocesan bishop is autonomous and is related but not accountable to the
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB; french: Conférence des évêques catholiques du Canada) is the national assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in Canada. It was founded in 1943, and was officially recognized by the Holy ...
(CCCB). According to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Canada is divided in four Episcopal assemblies: the
Atlantic Episcopal Assembly, the
Assemblée des évêques catholiques du Québec, the
Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario
The Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario (ACBO) (''Assemblée des évêques catholiques de l'Ontario'' in French) is the association of Catholic bishops in the Province of Ontario. It is involved in providing information about the moral positio ...
and the
Assembly of Western Catholic Bishops.
The
Pope
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is represented in Canada by the
Apostolic Nunciature to Canada
The Apostolic Nunciature to Canada is the diplomatic mission of the Holy See to Canada. It is headed by the Apostolic Nuncio to Canada, which is both an ecclesiastical and diplomatic office, with the rank of ambassador.
The Holy See first create ...
(
Ottawa).
![Coat of Arms of the Roman Catholic Military Ordinariate of Canada](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Roman_Catholic_Military_Ordinariate_of_Canada.svg)
Within Canada, the Latin hierarchy consists of:
*Archdiocese
**Diocese
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Edmonton
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Calgary
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Saint Paul
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Gatineau
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Amos
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* Amos (band), an American Christian rock band
* ''Amos'' (album), an album by Michael Ray
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Mont-Laurier
Mont-Laurier () is a town and incorporated municipality in northwest Quebec, Canada, located on the banks of the Lièvre River (''Rivière du Lièvre''), a tributary of the Ottawa River. Known as the "Capital of the Haute-Laurentides", the motto ...
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Rouyn-Noranda
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Grouard-McLennan
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Mackenzie-Fort Smith
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Whitehorse
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Halifax-Yarmouth
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Antigonish
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Charlottetown
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Keewatin-Le-Pas
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Churchill-Baie d'Hudson
*
Kingston
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Peterborough
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Sault Sainte Marie
*
Moncton
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Bathurst
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Edmundston
Edmundston is a city in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada.
On 1 January 2023, Edmundston will expanded, annexing the village of Rivière-Verte and parts of the local service districts of the parish of Saint-Jacques and the parish of Sai ...
**
Saint John
*
Montréal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-p ...
**
Joliette
**
Saint-Jean-Longueuil
**
Saint-Jérôme
Saint-Jérôme () ( 2021 population 80,213) is a suburban city located about northwest of Montreal on the Rivière du Nord. It is part of the Montreal of Greater Montreal. It is a gateway to the Laurentian Mountains and its resorts via the ...
**
Valleyfield
*
Ottawa-Cornwall
**
Hearst–Moosonee
**
Pembroke
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Timmins
Timmins ( ) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 (2021). The city's economy is based on natural resource ext ...
*
Québec
**
Chicoutimi
Chicoutimi () is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada.
It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and com ...
**
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière is a parish municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumer ...
**
Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of ...
*
Regina
**
Prince-Albert
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Saskatoon
Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway, and has served as th ...
*
Rimouski
Rimouski ( ) is a city in Quebec, Canada. Rimouski is located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, at the mouth of the Rimouski River. It has a population of 48,935 (as of 2021). Rimouski is the site of Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), t ...
**
Baie-Comeau
Baie-Comeau (; 2021 city population 20,687; CA population 26,643) is a city located approximately north-east of Quebec City in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the shores of the Saint Lawrence River nea ...
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Gaspé
*
Saint-Boniface
*
St. John's
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Grand Falls
**
Corner Brook and Labrador
*
Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional cou ...
**
Nicolet
**
Saint-Hyacinthe
Saint-Hyacinthe (; French: ) is a city in southwestern Quebec east of Montreal on the Yamaska River. The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 57,239. The city is located in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality of the Montérég ...
*
Toronto
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**
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
* Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname
** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland
** Lord Hamilt ...
**
London
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**
Saint Catharines
**
Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario and the second most populous (after Greater Sudbury) municipality in Northern Ontario; its population i ...
*
Vancouver
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**
Kamloops
**
Nelson
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers
* ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...
**
Prince George
**
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
*
Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749, ...
(not Metropolitan)
There is a
Military Ordinariate of Canada
The Military Ordinariate of Canada (french: Ordinariat militaire du Canada, la, Ordinariatus Militaris Canadensis) is a Latin Church military ordinariate of the Catholic Church.
It is immediately exempt to the Holy See and its Roman Congregat ...
for Canadian military personnel.
The Anglican use of the Latin Church is served from the United States, based in
Houston, Texas, by the
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is a special Catholic diocese for Anglican and Methodist converts in the United States and Canada. It allows these parishioners to maintain elements of Anglican liturgy and tradition in thei ...
.
One former Canadian bishopric, the francophone
Diocese of Gravelbourg
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gravelbourg ( la, Dioecesis Gravelburgensis) was a Latin suffragan of the Archdiocese of Regina and presently a Latin Catholic titular see.
Due to the declining Catholic population in the diocese, the last bishop, R ...
in Saskatchewan, has since its suppression in 1998 become a titular episcopal see, which may be bestowed on any Latin bishop without proper diocese, working in the Roman Curia or anywhere in the world.
Eastern dioceses
There is a
Ukrainian Greek Catholic (
Byzantine Rite) province, headed by the Metropolitan
Archeparchy of Winnipeg, which has four suffragan
eparchies
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(dioceses):
*
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton
The Eparchy of Edmonton is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church that governs parishes in the Canadian province of Alberta. It uses the Byzantine Rite liturgy in the Ukrainian language and E ...
*
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster
The Eparchy of New Westminster is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The eparchy is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropol ...
*
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon
The Eparchy of Saskatoon ( uk, Саскатунська єпархія Української греко-католицької церкви) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the C ...
*
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada in Toronto.
Coptic Catholic Churches in Canada
1) Notre dame D'Egypt in Laval- Quebec
2)Holy family Coptic Catholic church in Toronto - Ontario
There are five other
eparchies
Eparchy ( gr, ἐπαρχία, la, eparchía / ''overlordship'') is an ecclesiastical unit in Eastern Christianity, that is equivalent to a diocese in Western Christianity. Eparchy is governed by an ''eparch'', who is a bishop. Depending on the ...
and an
exarchate in Canada:
* also
Byzantine rite:
**
Melkite Eparchy of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal, immediately subject to the
Melkite Patriarch of Antioch
The Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch is the only actual residential Patriarchate of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church (Eastern Catholic, Byzantine Rite). It was formed in 1724 when a portion of the Orthodox Church of Antioch went into c ...
**
Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St George's in Canton
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, a
Romanian Greek Catholic Church Eparchy covering all of North America (including Canada), with cathedral see in
Canton, Ohio
**
Slovak Exarchate of Saints Cyril and Methodius of Toronto,
Slovak Greek Catholic Church jurisdiction under the
Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church's North American province, the
Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh
*
Antiochian Rite
Antiochene Rite or Antiochian Rite refers to the family of liturgies originally used by the Patriarchate of Antioch.
Liturgies in the Antiochene Rite
The Antiochian Rite, or the Antiochian Rite family, consists of Apostolic Liturgies including ...
:
Maronite Eparchy of Saint-Maron de Montréal, immediately subject to the
Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
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*
Chaldean Rite
The East Syriac Rite or East Syrian Rite, also called the Edessan Rite, Assyrian Rite, Persian Rite, Chaldean Rite, Nestorian Rite, Babylonian Rite or Syro-Oriental Rite, is an Eastern Christian liturgical rite that employs the Divine Litur ...
:
Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto is the sole eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the Chaldean Catholic Church (Syro-Oriental Rite) in Canada.
It depends directly on the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon, but it not pa ...
, directly dependent on the
Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad
*
Syrian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate for Canada (immediately
exempt to the Holy See)
*
Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Mississauga
The Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Mississauga is an eparchy for all Syro-Malabar Catholics in Canada.
It comprises 53 parishes which includes both churches and missions, with churches or missions in most provinces of Canada. It is currently the ...
(immediately
exempt to the Holy See)
A few Eastern particular church communities are pastorally served from the United States:
*
Armenian Rite
The Armenian Rite () is an independent liturgy used by both the Armenian Apostolic and Armenian Catholic Churches.
Liturgy
The liturgy is patterned after the directives of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, first official head and patron sain ...
:
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in New York
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States of America and Canada ( la, Eparchia Dominae Nostrae Naregensis) is located in Glendale, California, United States and is immediately subject to the Holy See. It was created by ...
, directly subject to the
Patriarch of Cilicia
Canadian Catholic personalities
Patron Saint of Canada
Saint Joseph is
Patron Saint
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of Canada.
Notable Canadian Catholics
*
Neil McNeil
Neil McNeil (November 23, 1851 – May 25, 1934) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver from 1910 to 1912 and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto from 1912 to 1934.
Early life
McNeil was born in Hillsborough, Inverness County, Nov ...
(1851–1934)
*
Bernard Lonergan
Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan (17 December 1904 – 26 November 1984) was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian, regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.
Lonergan's works include ''Insight: A ...
(1904–1984)
*
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
**
Eric McLuhan (1942-2018)
*
Paul Desmarais
Paul Desmarais Sr. (January 4, 1927 – October 8, 2013) was a Canadian financier and philanthropist, based in Montreal. With an estimated family net worth of US$4.5 billion (as of March 2012), Desmarais was ranked by ''Forbes'' as the fou ...
(1927-2013)
*
Charles Taylor (philosopher) (1931–present)
*
Wayne Hankey
Wayne John Hankey (November 7, 1944 – February 5, 2022) was a Canadian religious philosopher. Hankey had a lengthy career in academia, holding the title of professor emeritus in the Classics department at Dalhousie University until charged wi ...
(1944–present)
*
Marc Garneau
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau (born February 23, 1949) is a Canadian politician, retired Royal Canadian Navy officer and former astronaut who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Garneau was the mini ...
(1949–present)
*
John Candy
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian known mainly for his work in Hollywood films. Candy rose to fame in the 1970s as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City and its '' SCTV'' seri ...
(1950-1994)
*
Catherine O'Hara (1954–present)
*
Wayne Gretzky
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(1961–present)
*
Celine Dion
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(1968–present)
*
Neve Campbell
Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973; ) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her work in the drama and horror genres. She has appeared on ''People'' magazine's list of "50 Most Beautiful People" twice.
Following a series of minor ...
(1973–present)
*
Caroline Mulroney
Caroline Anne Mulroney Lapham (born June 11, 1974) is a Canadian businesswoman, lawyer and politician who currently serves as the Ontario Minister of Transportation and Minister of Francophone Affairs.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, she is the dau ...
(1974–present)
*
Ben Mulroney
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Ben (in he, בֶּן, ''son of'') forms part of Hebrew surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham ( he ...
(1976–present)
Prime Ministers
*
Sir John Thompson (1845–1894)
*
Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, ( ; ; November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minis ...
(1841-1919)
*
Louis St. Laurent (1882–1973)
*
Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000)
*
Joe Clark
Charles Joseph Clark (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian statesman, businessman, writer, and politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980.
Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal polit ...
(1939–present)
*
John Turner
John Napier Wyndham Turner (June 7, 1929September 19, 2020) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th prime minister of Canada from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and leader of t ...
(1929-2020)
*
Brian Mulroney (1939–present)
*
Jean Chrétien (1934–present)
*
Paul Martin
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin (born August 28, 1938), also known as Paul Martin Jr., is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 21st prime minister of Canada and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2003 to 2006.
The son o ...
(1938–present)
*
Justin Trudeau
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(1971–present)
Lapsed Canadian Catholics
*
Jim Carrey (1962–present) (Practices
Transcendental Meditation
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).
Saints
*
François de Laval
Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval (30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708), was a French prelate of the Catholic Church. Consecrated a bishop in 1658, he led the Apostolic Vicariate of New France from 1658 to ...
*
Frère André
*
Kateri Tekakwitha
Kateri Tekakwitha ( in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Catholic saint and virgin who was an Algonquin–Mohawk. Born in the Mohawk village of ...
*
Marguerite Bourgeoys
Marguerite Bourgeoys (17 April 162012 January 1700), was a French nun and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal in the colony of New France, now part of Québec, Canada. Born in Troyes, she became part of a sodality, ministering ...
*
Marguerite D'Youville
*
Marie de l'Incarnation
Marie of the Incarnation (28 October 1599 – 30 April 1672) was an Ursuline nun of the French order. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the spread of Catholicism in New France. S ...
*
Canadian Martyrs
**
Isaac Jogues
Isaac Jogues, S.J. (10 January 1607 – 18 October 1646) was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake George, call ...
**
Antoine Daniel
**
Jean de Brébeuf
Jean de Brébeuf () (25 March 1593 16 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron (Wyandot people) for the rest of his life, except for a few years in Franc ...
**
Gabriel Lalemant
**
Charles Garnier
**
Noël Chabanel
Noël Chabanel (February 2, 1613 – December 8, 1649) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the Canadian Martyrs.
Biography
Chabanel entered the Jesuit novitiate at Toulouse at the age of seventeen, and was ...
**
René Goupil
René Goupil, S.J. (15 May 1608 – 29 September 1642), was a French Jesuit lay missionary (in French "donné", "given" or "one who offers himself") who became a lay brother of the Society of Jesus shortly before his death. He was the first of ...
**
Jean de Lalande
Jean de Lalande, SJ (died October 19, 1646) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and one of the eight North American Martyrs. He was killed at the Mohawk village of Ossernenon after being captured by warriors.
Life
Jean de ...
Blessed
*
Catherine de Saint-Augustin
*
Dina Bélanger
*
Émilie Tavernier Gamelin
*
Frédéric Janssoone
Frédéric Janssoone, O.F.M., (also known as the Blessed Frédéric of Ghyvelde or Frédéric of Saint-Yves) (19 November 1838, Ghyvelde, France — 4 August 1916, Montreal, Canada) was a French-born Franciscan friar and Catholic priest who worke ...
*
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau
*
Marie-Élisabeth Turgeon
*
Marie-Léonie Paradis
*
Marie-Rose Durocher
*
Nykyta Budka
Nykyta Budka ( ua, Никита Будка aka Nikita, Mykyta, or Nicetas Budka; June 7, 1877 in Dobromirka, Austria-Hungary – October 1, 1949 in Karaganda, USSR) was a clergyman of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who lived and worked in A ...
*
Vasyl Velychkovsky
Venerables
*
Alfred Pampalon
* Anthony Kowalczyk
*
Élisabeth Bergeron
Élisabeth Bergeron, in religion Sister Saint-Joseph, (May 25, 1851 – April 29, 1936) was a Canadian religious servant who was a founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Saint-Hyacinthe in 1877. She was its Mother Superior for the first two year ...
*
Délia Tétreault
*
Vital-Justin Grandin
Vital-Justin Grandin (8 February 1829 – 3 June 1902) was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop known as a key architect of the Canadian Indian residential school system, which has been labeled an instrument of cultural genocide. In June 202 ...
See also
*
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
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*
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Canada Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Canada are well documented dating back to the 1960s. The preponderance of criminal cases with Canadian Catholic dioceses named as defendants that have surfaced since the 1980s strongly indicate that these cases ...
*
Catholic sisters and nuns in Canada Catholic sisters and nuns in Canada have been an important presence since the 17th century.
Quebec
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*
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of the United States and Canada
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Canada
*
List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
As of October 5, 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,248 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apo ...
*
List of Canadian Catholic saints
*
*
Indian Mass
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*
Protestantism in Canada
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland
The Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland ( la, 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 metropol ...
*
Sexual abuse cases in the Congregation of Christian Brothers The sexual abuse scandal in the Congregation of Christian Brothers is a major chapter in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in various Western jurisdictions.
Abuse by country Australia
In Australia, there were allegations that during the 1970s ...
Further reading
* Bramadat, Paul, and David Seljak, eds. ''Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada'' (2008)
* Clarke, Brian P. ''Piety and Nationalism: Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creation of an Irish catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895'' (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993)
* Fay, Terence J. ''A History of Canadian Catholics: Gallicanism, Romanism, and Canadianism'' (2002
excerpt and text search* Gardaz, Michel. "Religious studies in Francophone Canada." ''Religion'' 41#1 (https://globalnews.ca/news/544459/statscan-roman-catholics-remains-single-largest-christian-religious-group-in-canada/1): 53–70.
* Huel, Raymond. ''Archbishop A-A Tache of St. Boniface: The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision'' (University of Alberta Press, 2003).
* Jaenen, Cornelius J. ''The Role of the Church in New France'' (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976)
* Johnston, Angus Anthony. ''A History of the Catholic Church in Eastern Nova Scotia; Volume I: 1611- 1827'' (1960)
* Johnston, A.B.J. ''Life and Religion at Louisbourg, 1713-1758'' (MGill-Queen's University Press, 1996)
* Lahey, Raymond J. ''The First Thousand Years: A Brief History of the Catholic Church in Canada'' (2002)
* Laverdure, Paul. "Achille Delaere and the Origins of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Western Canada." ''Historical Papers' (2004)
online* McGowan, Mark. ''Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier'' (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2005)
* McGowan, Mark G. ""Pregnant with Perils": Canadian Catholicism and Its Relation to the Catholic Churches of Newfoundland, 1840–1949." ''Newfoundland and Labrador Studies'' 28.2 (2013)
online* McGowan, Mark G. "Rendering Unto Caesar: Catholics, the State, and the Idea of a Christian Canada." ''Historical Papers'' (2011)
online* McGowan, Mark George and Brian P. Clarke, eds. ''Catholics at the Gathering Place: Historical Essays on the Archdiocese of Toronto, 1841-1991'' (Dundurn, 1993)
* McGowan, Mark George. "Rethinking Catholic-Protestant Relations in Canada: The Episcopal Reports of 1900-1901." ''Canadian Catholic Historical Assoc.,'' (1992
online* McGowan, Mark G. "A Short History of Catholic Schools in Ontario.
online* McGowan, Mark G. "Rendering Unto Caesar: Catholics, the State, and the Idea of a Christian Canada." ''Historical Papers'' (2011).
online* McGowan, Mark G. "The Maritimes Region and the Building of a Canadian Church: The Case of the Diocese of Antigonish after confederation." ''Canadian Catholic Historical Association'' (2004): 46–67
online* Morice, A G. ''History Of The Catholic Church In Western Canada: From Lake Superior To The Pacific (1659–1895)'' (2 vol; reprint Nabu Press, 2010)
* Murphy, Terrence, and Gerald Stortz, eds, ''Creed and Culture: The Place of English-Speaking Catholics in Canadian Society, 1750 – 1930'' (1993), articles by scholars
* Pearson, Timothy G. ''Becoming Holy in Early Canada'' (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2014.)
* Perin, Roberto. ''Rome in Canada: the Vatican and Canadian affairs in the late Victorian age'' (U of Toronto Press, 1990)
* Trofimenkoff, Susan Mann. ''The Dream of Nation: A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec'' (1982). passim, esp pp 115–31
References
External links
Canadian Conference of Catholic BishopsObservatory of religious freedom - Presentation of the religious situation in CanadaCatholicsm The Canadian Encyclopedia
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