Diocese of New Westminster
Neo-Vestmonasterien(sis) Ucrainorum
Suffragan eparchy · Ukrainian · New Westminster, Canada
The Roman Catholic Diocese of New Westminster was a Latin Church see erected in 1890 from the Vicariate Apostolic of British Columbia. It was elevated and renamed the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vancouver in 1908, so no current ordinary holds the New Westminster title.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Ukrainian
- Erected
- 27 June 1974
- Latin
- Neo-Vestmonasterien(sis) Ucrainorum
- Annuario code
- 001002381
The see in figures
- Extent
- 119,439 km²
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
- Bishop
- Richard William Smith
- Born
- 21 November 1961
- Birthplace
- Hamiota-Manitoba
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 Our Lady of the Rosary, Vancouver stands in New Westminster, 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
Part of the Canadian province of British Columbia belongs to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vancouver (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Vancouveriensis), a Catholic Latin archdiocese. Its cathedral archiepiscopal see in Vancouver, B.C. is the Holy Rosary Cathedral, dedicated to the diocesan patron saint Our Lady of the Rosary. Richard W. Smith is the incumbent ordinary of the archdiocese.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].