Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough

Not to be confused with Anglican Diocese of Peterborough.

in England

Diocese of Peterborough Dioecesis Peterboroughensis
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	Sede vacante
Vicar General	Rev. Joseph Moran
Website
www.peterboroughdiocese.org catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dpete.html

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough (Latin: Dioecesis Peterboroughensis) is a Latin suffragan diocese 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. It is currently sede vacante following Pope Francis's appointment of Bishop William Terrence McGrattan as Ordinary of the Diocese of Calgary.

History

• Established on 1874.01.25 as Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Canada, on territory split off from the Diocese of Kingston in Ontario.
• Promoted on July 11, 1882 by Pope Leo XIII as Diocese of Peterborough, having gained the western part of the Diocese of Kingston. It extended from the shores of Lake Ontario north to Georgian Bay and from the shores of Lake Superior to the border of the Archdiocese of St. Boniface, in Manitoba. The diocese had a Catholic population of about 30,000 and Jean Francois Jamot, the first Bishop, took residence here.
• Lost territory on 1904.09.16 to establish the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie (Ontario).

Statistics and extent

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.

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Apostolic Vicar of Northern Canada

• Jean-François Jamot(born France) (3 February 1874 - 11 July 1882 see below), Titular Bishop of Sarepta (1874.02.03 – 1882.07.11)

Suffragan Bishops of Peterborough

• Jean-François Jamot (see above 11 July 1882 - death 4 May 1886)
• Thomas Joseph Dowling (14 December 1886 - 11 January 1889); next Bishop of Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) (1889.01.11 – death 1924.08.06)
• Richard Alphonsus O’Connor (born Ireland) (11 January 1889 - death 23 January 1913)
• Richard Michael Joseph O'Brien (20 June 1913 - 17 May 1929), next Titular Archbishop of Amorium (1929.05.17 – 1938.02.23) as Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston (1929.05.17 – 1938.02.23), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kingston (Ontario, Canada) (1938.02.23 – death 1943.08.30)
• Dennis P. O'Connor (30 January 1930 - death 30 August 1942)
• John Roderick MacDonald (5 June 1943 - 14 April 1945), next Titular Bishop of Ancusa (1945.04.14 – 1950.04.13) as Coadjutor Bishop of Antigonish (Canada) (1945.04.14 – 1950.04.13), succeeding as Bishop of Antigonish (1950.04.13 – death 1959.12.18)
• Joseph Gerald Berry (7 April 1945 - 28 November 1953), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Halifax (Canada) (1953.11.28 – 1967.05.12) and President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (1960 – 1964)
• Benjamin Ibberson Webster (born England) (24 April 1954 - retired 12 March 1968), previously Titular Bishop of Paphus (1946.09.24 – 1954.04.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) (1946.09.24 – 1954.04.24); emeritate as Titular Bishop of Tigamibena (1968.03.12 – death 1981.01.18)
• Francis Anthony Marrocco (10 June 1968 - death 18 July 1975), previously Titular Bishop of Limnæ (in Pisidia) (1955.12.01 – 1968.06.10) as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) (1955.12.01 – 1968.06.10)
• James Leonard Doyle (24 May 1976 - retired 28 December 2002), died 2004
• Nicola De Angelis (born Italy) (28 December 2002 - retired April 2014), previously Titular Bishop of Remesiana (1992.04.27 – 2002.12.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) (1992.04.27 – 2002.12.28)
• William Terrence McGrattan (April 2014 - 4 January 2017), previously Titular Bishop of Furnos minor (2009.11.06 – 2014.04.08) as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) (2009.11.06 – 2014.04.08); next Bishop of Calgary (BC, Canada) (4 January 2017 – ...).

Sources and external links

• Diocese of Peterborough website

• GCatholic, with Google map and satellite photo - data for all sections
• Diocese of Peterborough page at catholichierarchy.org retrieved August 2, 2006
• the Catholic Encyclopedia