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Metropolitan see Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Archdiocese of Saint John’s, Newfoundland

Sancti Ioannis Terrae Novae

Latin Church

Metropolitan archdiocese established as a prefecture apostolic in 1784 and raised to an archdiocese in 1904, the oldest Catholic jurisdiction in English-speaking North America. It is the metropolitan see for the province of St. John's with suffragans Grand Falls and Corner Brook and Labrador, and is led by Archbishop Peter Hundt. Note: listed in the input as a diocese, but it is in fact an archdiocese.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

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Established
1784
Catholics
120,135
Priests
36
Territory
16,641 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Peter Joseph Hundt
Born
26 August 1956
Birthplace
Hanover

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The cathedral

Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist stands in Saint John’s, Newfoundland, 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

Seated in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Ioannis Terrae Novae) is a Latin Church territory that heads an ecclesiastical province with two suffragan sees, Grand Falls and Corner Brook and Labrador. The Most Reverend Peter Hundt serves as the current archbishop.