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Diocese of Hearst–Moosonee

Hearsten(sis)-Musonitan(us)

The Diocese of Hearst-Moosonee is a Latin Church diocese in northern Ontario, erected on 3 December 2018 by uniting the former dioceses of Hearst and Moosonee. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
3 December 2018
Latin
Hearsten(sis)-Musonitan(us)
Patron
Assumption of Mary, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Annuario code
001001588

The see in figures

Catholics
26,520
Population
66,820
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
39.7%
Priests
20
Catholics per priest
1,326
Extent
1,108,830 km²
Catholics per km²
0.0

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Pierre Olivier Tremblay
Born
22 November 1970
Birthplace
Montpellier
Institute
MISSIONARI OBLATI DI MARIA IMMACOLATA

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption stands in Hearst, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Ottawa-Cornwall

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Formed on 3 December 2018 by uniting the Diocese of Hearst with the Diocese of Moosonee, the Diocese of Hearst-Moosonee (Latin: Dioecesis Hearstensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Ontario. The Hearst side of its lineage grew out of the Prefecture Apostolic of Northern Ontario, erected on 18 April 1919. The Diocese of Hearst-Moonosee is a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.