Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton
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Archdiocese of Edmonton Archidioecesis Edmontonensis |
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The Coat of Arms of the Archdiocese of Edmonton
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| 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 |
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| 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 Neil MacNeil |
| Website | |
| caedm.ca | |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton (Latin: Archidioecesis Edmontonensis) is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese in the Canadian federal 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-elect 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 Father 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.
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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