Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton is a Latin metropolitan archdiocese in the Canadian civil province of Alberta.
The archbishop's cathedral see is located in St. Joseph Cathedral, a minor basilica in Edmonton.
On March 22, 2007, Vatican Information Services announced that a Halifax native, Bishop Richard William Smith of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pembroke, Canada, had been appointed as Archbishop of Edmonton by Pope Benedict XVI.
On Saturday, July 14, 2012, an official news release from Vatican Information Service, an arm of the Holy See Press Office, stated that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Gregory Bittman, who until then had been serving as the Judicial Vicar and as Archdiocesan Chancellor, as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton and Titular Bishop of Caltadria.

Ecclesiastical province

Its suffragan sees are :
Established on 22 September 1871 as the Diocese of St Albert, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Saint-Boniface, to which it lost territory again in 1889
Promoted on 1912.11.30 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Edmonton / Edmontonen, having lost territory to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary as its first suffragan.
Lost territory again on 1948.07.17 to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Paul, Alberta, which became its second suffragan.
It enjoyed a Papal visit from Pope John Paul II in September 1984.

Diocesan episcopate

;Suffragan Bishops of Edmonton
;Metropolitan Archbishops of Edmonton
;Coadjutor bishops
;Auxiliary bishop
;Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
The archdiocese covers Central Alberta, Edmonton Capital Region and the middle and upper half of the Alberta's Rockies region.
As of 2014, it pastorally served 640,813 Catholics on 81,151 km² in 124 parishes and 5 missions with 168 priests, 25 deacons, 318 lay religious and 12 seminarians
In 2010 the archdiocese contains 129 parishes and missions, 96 diocesan priests, 85 religious priests, and 368,545 Catholics. It also has 278 women religious, 18 religious brothers, and 14 permanent deacons.

Edmonton parishes

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Bashaw
Beaumont
Camrose
Devon
Drayton Valley
Edson
Enoch
Evansburg
Fort Saskatchewan
Gibbons
Grande Cache
Hinton
Innisfail
Jasper
Killam
Lacombe
Leduc
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Lloydminster
Ma-Me-O-Beach
Maskwacis
Mayerthorpe
Onoway
Olds
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Ponoka
Provost
Red Deer
Rocky Mountain House
Rimbey
St. Albert
Stettler
Spruce Grove
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Sherwood Park
Sylvan Lake
Trochu
Toronto
Wetaskiwin
Wainwright
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Vermilion
Vegreville