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Suffragan diocese Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Diocese of Saint John, New Brunswick

Sancti Ioannis Canaden(sis)

Latin Church diocese erected in 1842 covering the Saint John, Fredericton, and Miramichi regions of New Brunswick. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Moncton and is led by Bishop Christian Riesbeck.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Established
1842
Catholics
132,600
Priests
60
Territory
60,000 km²

Parishes and churches

67 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

Bishop
Christian Riesbeck
Born
7 February 1970
Birthplace
Montréal

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Saint John, New Brunswick, 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

First erected on 30 September 1842 under the name Diocese of Saint John in America, this see took its present title, the Diocese of Saint John, New Brunswick (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis Canadensis), on 15 November 1924. It stood under the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth from 1852 until 1936, when it passed to the newly erected Archdiocese of Moncton, a province created to reflect the population and linguistic diversity of New Brunswick's Catholics; it remains a Moncton suffragan today.