Archdiocese of Winnipeg
Vinnipegen(sis)
Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See · Latin Church · Winnipeg, Canada
The Archdiocese of Winnipeg is a Latin Church archdiocese established in 1915 and is the only diocese of the Latin Church in Canada that is immediately exempt to the Holy See, with no suffragan dioceses. Archbishop Murray Chatlain was installed on April 4, 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 4 December 1915
- Latin
- Vinnipegen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001000159
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 162,276
- Priests
- 58
- Catholics per priest
- 2,798
- Extent
- 116,405 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.4
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
- Murray Chatlain
- Born
- 19 January 1963
- Birthplace
- Saskatoon
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
St. Mary's Cathedral stands in Winnipeg, 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
Created from the Archdiocese of Saint Boniface and located on the west side of the Red River, the Archdiocese of Winnipeg (Latin: Archidioecesis Vinnipegensis) covers part of the province of Manitoba. It holds a distinction unique among Canada's Latin Church dioceses: it belongs to no ecclesiastical province and is immediately exempt to the Holy See.
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].