Diocese of Mar Addai of Toronto
Sancti Addai in urbe Torontina
Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See · Chaldean Church · Toronto, Canada
Mar Addai of Toronto is the Chaldean Catholic (East Syriac rite) eparchy for all of Canada, erected on 10 June 2011 and seated at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in North York. Robert Saeed Jarjis has been its eparch since 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Chaldean Church
- Erected
- 10 June 2011
- Latin
- Sancti Addai in urbe Torontina
- Annuario code
- 001002156
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 38,000
- Population
- 2,016
- Priests
- 13
- Catholics per priest
- 2,923
- Extent
- 9,984,670 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Robert Saeed Jarjis
- Born
- 23 October 1973
- Birthplace
- Baghdad
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of the Good Shepherd stands in Toronto, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Canada's only eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the Chaldean Catholic Church (Syro-Oriental Rite) is the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto. Belonging to no ecclesiastical province, it depends directly on the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in North York, Toronto, Ontario. Figures from 2016 record 31,716 faithful served, with seven priests and 40 permanent deacons presiding over eight parishes spread across the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- 2 High Meadow Place, North York, Toronto, ON m9l 2z5, Canada
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].