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Suffragan diocese Prince Albert, Canada

Diocese of Prince Albert

Principis Alberten(sis)

Latin Church

The Diocese of Prince Albert is a Latin Church diocese in central Saskatchewan, founded in 1891 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Regina. Pope Leo XIV appointed Kenneth Thorson, O.M.I., as bishop on 28 May 2026, succeeding Stephen Hero who became Archbishop of Edmonton in 2025.

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The address the register holds for Sacred Heart Cathedral, in Prince Albert, Canada.

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Established
1891
Catholics
32,000
Priests
35
Territory
118,000 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Kenneth Thorson
Institute
O.M.I.

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The cathedral

Sacred Heart Cathedral stands in Prince Albert, 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

In Saskatchewan, the Diocese of Prince-Albert (Latin: Dioecesis Principis Albertensis) is a Latin Catholic suffragan within the western Canadian ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Regina. Sacred Heart Cathedral at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan serves as its cathedral episcopal see, and the diocese also holds the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Wakaw, Saskatchewan.

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