Territory Central Nova Scotia Metropolitan Halifax, Nova Scotia Denomination Roman Catholic Phone +1 902-429-9800 Province Nova Scotia Cathedral St. Mary's Basilica | Ecclesiastical province Halifax-Yarmouth Parishes 71 Area 21,770 km² Archbishop Anthony Mancini Country Canada | |
Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2010)
733,300
207,900 (28.4%) Address 1531 Grafton St, Halifax, NS B3J 2B9, Canada Similar Saint Mary's Cathedral, Saint Peter's Church, St Anthony's Catholic, Saint Vincent de Paul Parish Profiles | ||
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth (Latin: Archidioecesis Halifaxiensis-Yarmuthensis) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the Province of Nova Scotia.
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Its cathedral is a minor basilica: St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Its headquarters are at Chancery Office, P.O. Box 1527, 1531 Grafton St., Halifax, NS B3J 2Y3, Canada. Its current diocesan ordinary is Archbishop Anthony Mancini.
History
On territory originally a part of the Diocese of Quebec, including the whole of Nova Scotia, the future diocese of Halifax, was established on 4 September 1817 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Nova Scotia, a pre-diocesan jurisdiction entitled to a titular bishop and exempt, i.e., directly subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province.
It was promoted to a bishopric on 15 February 1842 and on 22 September 1844 lost territory to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arichat, now its suffragan.
In 1852, Halifax was elevated to an archdiocese.
It lost territory twice more: on 19 February 1953 to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Bermuda Islands and on 6 July 1953 to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yarmouth.
It enjoyed a papal visit from Pope John Paul II in September 1984.
In December 2011, the Diocese of Yarmouth was merged back into the Archdiocese of Halifax, creating the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth., which was renamed by absorbing its title. The former cathedral became the St. Ambrose Co-Cathedral, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
Extent and province
The Archdiocese of Halifax covers 21,770 square kilometers. As of 2006, the archdiocese contained 53 parishes, 64 active diocesan priests, 16 religious priests, and 161,125 Catholics. It also had 243 women religious, 17 religious brothers, and 28 permanent deacons.
The metropolitan archbishop heads an ecclesiastical province which includes the suffragan dioceses of Antigonish and Charlottetown.
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(all Roman Rite)