Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough
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Diocese of Peterborough Dioecesis Peterboroughensis |
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| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Ecclesiastical province | Archdiocese of Kingston |
| Metropolitan | Most Rev. Brendan O'Brien |
| Population - Catholics |
100,000 (25.2%) |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | July 11, 1882 |
| Cathedral | Saint Peter-in-Chains |
| Patron saint | St. Peter & St. Patrick |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Most Rev. Daniel J. Miehm |
| Vicar General | Fr. Joseph Moran |
| Website | |
| catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dpete.html | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough (Latin: Dioecesis Peterboroughensis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario that includes part of the federal Province of Ontario in inland Canada.
Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of Saint Peter-in-Chains in Peterborough, Ontario. On March 10, 2017, the Pope named former Hamilton Auxiliary Bishop Daniel J. Miehm as the new Bishop of Peterborough.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 61,700 Catholics (13.8% of 447,000 total) on 25,900 km² in 40 parishes and a mission with 69 priests (56 diocesan, 13 religious), 8 deacons, 92 lay religious (13 brothers, 79 sisters) and 3 seminarians.
As of 2006, the diocese contained 88,741 Catholics in 43 parishes, 104 priests, 9 religious priests, 101 Women Religious and 12 deacons.
The present geographical area of the Diocese of Peterborough includes the districts of Muskoka and Parry Sound, the counties of Peterborough, Northumberland and Victoria, that portion of the Regional District of Durham which formally was the County of Durham and five south western townships of the County of Haliburton.
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