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Suffragan diocese Grand Falls, Canada

Diocese of Grand Falls

Grandicataracten(sis), già Grandfallen(sis)

Latin Church

The Diocese of Grand Falls in Newfoundland originated in 1856 as the Diocese of Harbour Grace, becoming Harbour Grace-Grand Falls in 1958 and taking its current name in 1964. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of St. John's, with its see at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

On the map

Esri
Grand Falls, Canada, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1856
Catholics
37,200
Priests
24
Territory
42,368 km²

Parishes and churches

41 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Robert Anthony Daniels
Born
18 June 1957
Birthplace
Windsor

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Grand Falls-Windsor stands in Grand Falls, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Erected on 29 February 1856 as the Diocese of Harbour Grace, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Falls (Latin: Dioecesis Grandfallensis) is a Latin suffragan within the Atlantic Canadian ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Grand Falls-Windsor, and a former cathedral, likewise dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, stands in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador.