The Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince-Albert ( la, Dioecesis Principis Albertensis), in

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...

, is a Latin

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in the western Canadian

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of the Metropolitan

Archdiocese of Regina The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina ( la, Archidioecesis Reginatensis) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese comprising the southern part of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, as far north as the 30th township, or about 51°30' lat. The metropo ...

. Its

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episcopal see is

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Cathedral, at

Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Prince Albert is the third-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada, after Saskatoon and Regina. It is situated near the centre of the province on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River. The city is known as the "Gateway to the North" because ...

. It also has the National Shrine of the Little Flower, in

Wakaw Wakaw, Saskatchewan, is a town 90 km (56 miles) northeast of Saskatoon and 66 km (41 miles) south of Prince Albert. It is about halfway between the two cities and is served by Highway 2, Highway 41 and Highway 312. Wakaw is in hil ...

, Saskatchewan.

History

* Established on 4 June 1891 as Apostolic Vicariate of Saskatchewan on territory slit off from the Metropolitan

Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface ( la, Archidioecesis Sancti Bonifacii) is a Latin archdiocese in part of the civil Province of Manitoba in Canada. Despite having no suffragan dioceses, the archdiocese is nominally metropolitan and ...

. * Promoted on 1907.12.02 as Diocese of Prince-Albert / Principis Alberten(sis) (Latin) * Lost territory on 1910.03.04 to establish the

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. * Renamed on 1921.04.30 as Diocese of Prince-Albert–Saskatoon. * Lost territory on 1921.05.06 to establish the Territorial Abbacy of Saint Peter–Muenster. *Renamed (back) on 1933.06.09 as Diocese of Prince-Albert, having gained territory from

and lost territory to establish the Diocese of Saskatoon.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 40,800 Catholics (20.5% of 198,600 total) on 118,834 km² in 80 parishes with 62 priests (47 diocesan, 15 religious), 1 deacon, 79 lay religious (15 brothers, 64 sisters) and 2 seminarians.)

Bishops

(all

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, often members of Latin congregations)http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/prin0.htm GCatholic.org ;''Apostolic Vicar of Saskatchewan'' * Albert Pascal,

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded on January 25, 1816, by Eugène de Mazenod, a French priest born in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on August 1, ...

(O.M.I.) (1891.06.02 – 1907.12.02 ''see below''),

Titular Bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox a ...

Mosynopolis Mosynopolis ( el, Μοσυνόπολις), of which only ruins now remain in Greek Thrace, was a city in the Roman province of Rhodope, which was known until the 9th century as Maximianopolis (Μαξιμιανούπολις) or, to distinguish ...

(1891.06.02 – 1907.12.02) ;''Suffragan Bishop of Prince-Albert (first time)'' * Albert Pascal, O.M.I. (''see above'' 1907.12.02 – death 1920.07.12) ;''Suffragan Bishop of Prince-Albert–Saskatoon'' * Henri-Jean-Maria Prud'homme (1921.06.16 – 1933.06.09 ''see below'') ;''Suffragan Bishops of Prince-Albert (again)'' * Henri-Jean-Maria Prud'homme (''see above'' 1933.06.09 – retired 1937.01.29), emeritate as Titular Bishop of

Saldæ Saldae was an important port city in the ancient Roman Empire, located at today's Béjaïa (in Kabylia, eastern Algeria). It was generally a crossroads between eastern and western segments of Northern Africa, from the time of Carthage to the end o ...

(1937.01.29 – death 1952.01.05) * Réginald Duprat,

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(O.P.) (1938.03.17 – retired 1952.06.29), emeritate as Titular Bishop of

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(1952.06.29 – death 1954.02.13) * Léo Blais (1952.07.04 – 1959.02.28); next Titular Bishop of

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(1959.03.18 – death 1991.01.21), first as Auxiliary Bishop of

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 ...

(

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 thirte ...

, Canada) (1959.03.18 – 1971.05.11), then on emeritate * Laurent Morin (1959.02.28 – retired 1983.04.09), previously Titular Bishop of

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(1955.09.08 – 1959.02.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of

(

, Canada) (1955.09.08 – 1959.02.28); died 1996 * Blaise-Ernest Morand (1983.04.09 – retired 2008.05.26), succeeded as former

Coadjutor Bishop A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) is a bishop in the Catholic, Anglican, and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese. The coadjutor (literally, "co- ...

of Prince-Albert (1981.04.22 – 1983.04.09) * Albert Privet Thévenot,

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(M. Afr.) (2008.05.26 – retired 2021.03.25) * Stephen Andrew Hero (2021.03.25 – ...) ;''Coadjutor bishop'' * Blaise-Ernest Morand (1981-1983)

References

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Sources and external links

Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert site

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