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It includes the Calgary Region, all of southern Alberta and the extreme lower half of the Alberta's Rockies region.. As per 2014 it pastorally served 538,000 Catholics (45.5% of 1,183,000 total) on 110,500 km² in 69 parishes with 158 priests (123 diocesan, 35 religious), 50 deacons, 166 lay religious (46 brothers, 120 sisters) and 10 seminarians.
A 4.9-metre (16 ft) statue of the Virgin Mary with Child in stone, by the Calgary sculptor Luke Lindoe occupies a niche above the main entrance. Senator Pat Burns donated four 750-pound (340 kg) bells in to the church in 1904 that were cast by the Paccard Foundry in Annecy , France .
Tuesday, 26 July 2022: Holy Papal Mass at "Commonwealth Stadium" in Edmonton [9] and participation in the Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimage and Liturgy of the Word at the Lac Ste. Anne [10] In August 2023, a former student of St. Mary's Salesian Junior High School, Stephen Bounds, filed a lawsuit claiming he was groomed and sexually assaulted as a 12 ...
If you'd prefer to watch the midnight mass live, you can stream it on the Vatican Youtube Channel. The Mass begins Dec. 24, at 1:30 p.m. ET ( 7:30 p.m. Central European Standard Time).
The Catholic Church in Canada is part of the worldwide Catholic Church and has a decentralised structure, meaning each diocesan bishop is autonomous but under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Diocese of Calgary may refer to the following ecclesiastical jurisdictions with seat in Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary;
On June 8, 2007, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved CTS' application for new television stations to serve the Calgary and Edmonton markets. Respectively, these are CKCS-DT , which broadcasts on channel 32, and CKES-DT , which broadcasts on channel 45; both stations launched on October 8, 2007.
He was granted early retirement as Bishop of Calgary by Pope Francis on January 4, 2017, due to health concerns. He served as the Apostolic Administrator of the diocese until the installation of his successor, William McGrattan, on February 27, 2017. [1] He died in Calgary on December 3, 2024, at the age of 81. [2]