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Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish

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Diocese of Antigonish

Dioecesis Antigonicensis
File:Coat of Arms of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish.svg
Location
CountryFile:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
Ecclesiastical provinceHalifax
Statistics
Area18,800 km2 (7,300 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2020)
Increase 220,300
Increase 124,400 (Increase 56.5%)
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
EstablishedAugust 23, 1886
CathedralSt. Ninian's Cathedral
Secular priests74
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopWayne Joseph Kirkpatrick
Metropolitan ArchbishopArchbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth

The Diocese of Antigonish (Latin: Dioecesis Antigonicensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Nova Scotia, Canada. Its current diocesan ordinary is Wayne Joseph Kirkpatrick.

History

File:Notre Dame de L'Assomption Arichat.jpg
Proto-Cathedral of Notre Dame de L'Assomption, Arichat, Nova Scotia.

The Diocese was established on 22 September 1844, under the name of the Diocese of Arichat, on territory split off from the Diocese of Halifax. Its proto-cathedral (now Église Notre Dame de l’Assomption) was located on Cape Breton Island, in the port town of Arichat. In both Scottish and Canadian folklore, the first ordinary of the Diocese, Bishop William Fraser of Strathglass, is a folk hero. He is said to have been a man of enormous physical strength and to have been able to break steel horseshoes with his bare hands. On both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, many legends have been collected of the Bishop's exploits.[1] On 23 August 1886, the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Antigonish, and its episcopal see moved to St. Ninian's Cathedral, on the Nova Scotia mainland in the town of Antigonish. Prior to the outbreak of the First World War, the highly influential Antigonish Movement, which combined adult education, co-operatives, microfinance and rural community development to help small, resource-based villages throughout the Maritimes to improve their economic and social circumstances, was largely founded and led by a small group of Diocesan priests: Father James Tompkins, Father Moses Coady, and Fr. Hugh MacPherson. In 1946, Scottish nationalist, folklorist, and scholar of Scottish Gaelic literature John Lorne Campbell was received into the Roman Catholic Church inside St. Ninian's Cathedral in Antigonish.[2] Campbell, along with his American-born musicologist wife, Margaret Fay Shaw, had previously collected much folklore and traditional music from Diocesan Catholics in both Canadian Gaelic and the indigenous Mi'kmaq language, which was recorded onto Ediphone wax cylinders.[3]

2009–2010 apostolic administration

Archbishop Anthony Mancini of the Archdiocese of Halifax was named the Apostolic Administrator effective September 26, 2009, and remained in that position until the installation of Brian Dunn on January 25, 2010.[4]

Extent

The Diocese of Antigonish covers 18,800 square kilometers, comprising the counties of Pictou, Antigonish, Guysborough, Inverness, Victoria, Richmond and Cape Breton. As of 2006, the diocese contained 123 parishes, 119 active diocesan priests, 8 religious priests, and 129,905 Catholics. It also has 290 women religious, 12 religious brothers and 1 permanent deacon. In 2012 in order to satisfy its legal obligations to pay out $15 million to the victims of sexual abuse, the diocese had to sell a large number of its lands and properties, liquidating the bank accounts of many of its churches, and borrowing $6.5 million from private lenders to make the payout.[5][6][7] Until 2015, the Bishop of Antigonish served ex officio as Chancellor of St. Francis Xavier University.

Bishops

Bishops of Arichat
Bishops of Antigonish
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

In Canadian literature

References

  1. ↑ Effie Rankin (2004), As a' Braighe/Beyond the Braes: The Gaelic Songs of Allan the Ridge MacDonald, Cape Breton University Press. Pages 169-170.
  2. ↑ Ray Perman (2013), The Man Who Gave Away His Island: A Life of John Lorne Campbell, Birlinn Limited. Pages 115-116.
  3. ↑ Ray Perman (2013), The Man Who Gave Away His Island: A Life of John Lorne Campbell, Birlinn Limited. Pages 63-68.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "New N.S. bishop named to replace Lahey". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Diocese of Antigonish starts church review". The Chronicle Herald. 2014-04-14. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named :0
  7. ↑ "Antigonish diocese to sell hundreds of properties". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  8. ↑ Flemming, David B. (1985). "Fraser, William". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. VIII (1851–1860) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  9. ↑ MacLean, R. A. (1972). "MacKinnon, Colin Francis". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. X (1871–1880) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  10. ↑ MacLean, R. A. (1994). "Cameron, John". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XIII (1901–1910) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  11. ↑ Effie Rankin (2004), As a' Braighe/Beyond the Braes: The Gaelic Songs of Allan the Ridge MacDonald, Cape Breton University Press. Pages 110-115, 169-170.
  12. ↑ Effie Rankin (2004), As a' Braighe/Beyond the Braes: The Gaelic Songs of Allan the Ridge MacDonald, Cape Breton University Press. Pages 169-170.

MacDonald, Alexander (1907). "Diocese of Antigonish" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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