Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth Archidioecesis Halifaxiensis-Yarmuthensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Canada |
Territory | Central Nova Scotia |
Ecclesiastical province | Halifax-Yarmouth |
Metropolitan | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
Statistics | |
Area | 34,055 km2 (13,149 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 733,300 207,900 (28.4%) |
Parishes | 66 [1] |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 4 September 1817 |
Cathedral | St. Mary's Basilica |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Brian Joseph Dunn |
Website | |
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax–Yarmouth ( Latin: Archidioecesis Halifaxiensis-Yarmuthensis) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the civil province of Nova Scotia.
The archdiocese has both a cathedral, St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica, in Halifax, and a co-cathedral St. Ambrose Co-Cathedral, in Yarmouth. Its current diocesan ordinary is Archbishop Brian Dunn.
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 (as the Diocese of Antigonish) one of its suffragans.
In 1852, Halifax was elevated to an archdiocese. [2]
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. [3]
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, [4] which was renamed by absorbing its title. The former cathedral became the St. Ambrose Co-Cathedral, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
The Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth covers 34,055 square kilometers. As of 2021, the archdiocese contained 66 parishes, 58 active diocesan priests, 7 religious priests, and 215,880 Catholics. It also had 87 women religious, 7 religious brothers, and 41 permanent deacons. [1]
The metropolitan archbishop heads an ecclesiastical province which includes the suffragan dioceses of Antigonish and Charlottetown.
(all Roman Rite)
The Diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda was established in 12th June 1967. Bermuda was served by the Diocesan clergy of Halifax until 1953, after which pastoral responsibility transferred to the Congregation of the Resurrection.