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Metropolitan see Halifax, Canada

Archdiocese of Halifax–Yarmouth

Halifaxien(sis)-Yarmuthen(sis)

The Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth is a metropolitan see in Nova Scotia, founded in 1817 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Nova Scotia and raised to an archdiocese in 1852. It assumed its current name in 2011 after merging with the Diocese of Yarmouth, and its suffragans are Antigonish and Charlottetown.

On the map

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

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Established
1817
Catholics
215,880
Priests
68
Territory
34,055 km²

Parishes and churches

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

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Archbishop
Anthony Mancini
Born
8 January 1955
Birthplace
Saint John's, Newfoundland

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The cathedral

St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica, Halifax stands in Halifax, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is St. Ambrose Co-Cathedral, Yarmouth.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

Part of the civil province of Nova Scotia falls within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth (Latin: Archidioecesis Halifaxiensis-Yarmuthensis), a Latin Church archdiocese with two principal churches: St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica in Halifax and St. Ambrose Co-Cathedral in Yarmouth. Archbishop Brian Dunn has served as diocesan ordinary since 2020.