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The Archdiocese of Halifax enjoyed a papal visit from Pope John Paul II in September 1984; that year was the 200th anniversary of the precedent set by the laity of Halifax of forcing the repeal of the anti-Catholic legislation in Nova Scotia, and the British Empire.
St. Peter's Cemetery, located to the west of St. Mary's Basilica, is the oldest Catholic cemetery in Halifax, created when the original chapel was built at the site of the basilica in 1784. The St. Peter's Cemetery served as the main Catholic burial place in Halifax until 1843 when it was replaced by Holy Cross Cemetery. [7]
The Jesuit presence in Halifax started in 1940 when they were handed the administration of St. Mary's College, which would become Saint Mary's University. The high school closed in 1963 and in 1974, the university was transferred to the Archdiocese of Halifax. In 1952, the Jesuits founded the Canadian Martyrs' parish. In 2005, this was also ...
It was erected on July 6, 1953. The Diocese of Yarmouth covered 32,150 square kilometers. In December 2011, it was merged with the Archdiocese of Halifax to create the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth. [1]
Ecclesiastical provinces and dioceses of the Catholic Church in Canada. Each color represents one of the 18 Latin Church provinces.. The Catholic Church in Canada comprises . a Latin Church hierarchy, consisting of eighteen ecclesiastical provinces each headed by a metropolitan archbishop, with a total of 54 suffragan dioceses, each headed by a bishop, and a non-metropolitan archbishopric ...
William Walsh (7 November 1804 – 11 August 1858) was an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax. He was born in Waterford, County Waterford, Republic of Ireland and died in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Archbishop Mancini was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Montreal on May 23, 1970. On February 18, 1999, he was appointed an Auxiliary Bishop of Montreal by Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte. On October 18, 2007, he was appointed to the Archdiocese of Halifax, succeeding Archbishop Terrence Thomas Prendergast as the ordinary.
Brian Joseph Dunn (born 1955) is a Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church who is Archbishop of Halifax-Yarmouth. He was Bishop of Antigonish from 2010 to 2019. Early years