Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface
Sancti Bonifacii
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Saint-Boniface, Canada
The Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface is a bilingual French and English Latin rite metropolitan see covering much of southern Manitoba east of the Red River. It was elevated to an archdiocese in 1871 and has no suffragan dioceses.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 4 June 1847
- Latin
- Sancti Bonifacii
- Patron
- Saint Boniface
- Annuario code
- 001002799
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 112,620
- Priests
- 90
- Catholics per priest
- 1,251
- Extent
- 38,200 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.9
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
- Archbishop
- Albert LeGatt
- Born
- 6 May 1953
- Birthplace
- Melfort
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
Saint Boniface Cathedral stands in Saint-Boniface, 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.
The province of Saint Boniface
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within the civil Province of Manitoba lies the Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Bonifacii), a Latin see that, though it has no suffragan dioceses, remains nominally metropolitan and forms an ecclesiastical province on its own. Archbishop Albert LeGatt currently leads it, and its cathedral, St. Boniface Cathedral in Winnipeg, holds the rank of minor basilica.
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].