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Diocese of St. Albert

Archdiocese of Edmonton
Archidioecesis Edmontonensis
Coat of Arms of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton.svg
The Coat of Arms of the Archdiocese of Edmonton
Location
Country  Canada
Ecclesiastical province Alberta
Metropolitan Edmonton, Alberta
Statistics
Area 81,151 km2 (31,333 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics

1,557,922
368,545 (23.7%)
Parishes 129
Schools 10
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established 1912-11-30
Cathedral St. Joseph's Basilica
Secular priests 96
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Archbishop Richard William Smith
Auxiliary Bishops Gregory Bittman
Emeritus Bishops Joseph MacNeil
Website
caedm.ca

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton (Latin: Archidioecesis Edmontonensis) 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, Alberta.

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 (VIS), 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.

Its suffragan sees are :

Established on 22 September 1871 as the Diocese of St Albert (Latin Sancti Alberti), on territory split off from the then Diocese of Saint-Boniface, to which it lost territory again in 1889 (meanwhile Metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface)


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