Diocese of St Albert

Archdiocese of Edmonton Archidioecesis Edmontonensis
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)