The Roman Catholic Diocese of Thunder Bay ( la, Dioecesis Sinus Tonitralis) is a Latin

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in the

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of the Metropolitan

Archdiocese of Toronto The Archdiocese of Toronto ( la, Archidioecesis Torontina) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the Province of Ontario. Its archbishop is also the ecclesiastical provincial for the dioceses of Hamilton, London, Saint Catharines ...

, in

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...

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. Its

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episcopal see is St. Patrick's Cathedral, dedicated to St. Patrick, in

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 ...

, Ontario.

Statistics

As per 2014 it pastorally served 81,400 Catholics (31.0% of 262,600 total) on 220,000 km² in 43 parishes with 46 priests (37 diocesan, 9 religious), 36 deacons and 16 lay religious (9 brothers, 7 sisters) .

History

* It was erected 29 April 1952, as the Diocese of Fort William, on territories split 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 ...

and the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie. * Renamed on 26 February 1970 as Diocese of Thunder Bay, after its see.

Episcopal ordinaries

(all

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) ;''Suffragan Bishops of Fort William'' * Edward Quentin Jennings (born Canada) (1952.05.14 – 1969.09.18), previously

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of Sala (1941.03.22 – 1946.02.22) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(BC, Canada) (1941.03.22 – 1946.02.22), Bishop of

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(Canada) (1946.02.22 – 1952.05.14); emeritate as Titular Bishop of Assidona (1969.09.18 – resigned 1970.11.23), died 1980. ;''Suffragan Bishops of Thunder Bay'' *

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(1970.04.16 – death 1975.12.28); previously

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(1963.06.25 – 1970.04.16), first as Auxiliary Bishop of the

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(Canada) (1963.06.25 – 1966), then as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Montréal (Quebec, Canada) (1966 – 1970.04.16) *

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(1976.05.24 – 1994.02.02), next Bishop of Saint Catharines (Canada) (1994.02.02 – retired 2001.11.09) *

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(1995.03.24 – 1998.01.19); previously Titular Bishop of

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(1986.04.18 – 1995.03.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Ontario, Canada) (1986.04.18 – 1995.03.24); later Bishop of

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(BC, Canada) (1998.01.19 – retired 2017.01.04) *

Frederick Joseph Colli Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Nobility Anhalt-Harzgerode * Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) Austria * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederic ...

(2 February 1999 - ... ), previously Titular Bishop of

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(1994.12.19 – 1999.02.02) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Ontario, Canada) (1994.12.19 – 1999.02.02).

References

Sources and external links

Diocese of Thunder Bay site

* {{Authority control 1952 establishments in Ontario

Statistics

History

Episcopal ordinaries

See also

References

Sources and external links