Roman Catholic Diocese Of Hamilton In Bermuda
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda ( la, Dioecesis Hamiltonensis in Bermuda) is a
diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, 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 Roman province, pro ...
of the
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of the
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. The diocese comprises the entirety of the dependency of
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. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nassau, and a member of the
Antilles Episcopal Conference The Antilles Episcopal Conference (AEC) is a Roman Catholic episcopal conference. Its members are bishops and archbishops from current and former British, Dutch, and French colonies and dependencies in the Caribbean (excluding Haiti), Central Ameri ...
. The diocese of Hamilton was erected in 1953 out of the
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in
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,
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(Bermuda having historically been part of
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) as the Prefecture Apostolic of Bermuda Islands. It was elevated to an apostolic vicariate in January 1956 and to the Diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda in June 1967.


Ordinaries

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Robert Dehler Robert Stephen Dehler, C.R., (26 December 1889 – 26 August 1966) was a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop. Dehler was born in St Agatha, Canada in 1889, and ordained as a Catholic priest in 1916; and served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic ...
(1954–1966) * Bernard Murphy (1967–1974) * Brian Hennessy (1975–1995) * Robert Kurtz (1995–2015) * Wiesław Śpiewak (2015–)


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External links

* Catholic Church in Bermuda Roman Catholic dioceses in North America Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Nassau {{Bermuda-stub