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On February 22, 2011, Vatican Information Service (VIS) and Catholic News Service (CNS), announced that Pope Benedict XVI had named the 53-year-old Bishop Gérald Lacroix, until then an Auxiliary Bishop (assistant bishop) of Quebec (since 2009), as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada.
The Catholic population underwent its first recorded drop between 2001 and 2011. Notable trends include the de-Catholicization of Quebec, a drop in the Catholic population in small provinces with stagnant populations, and a rise in Catholics in the large English-speaking provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta.
Quebec French profanities, [1] known as sacres (singular: sacre; French: sacrer, "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy that are used as strong profanities in Quebec French (the main variety of Canadian French) and in Acadian French (spoken in Maritime Provinces, east of Quebec, and a portion of ...
The archbishop of Quebec is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, who is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative needs.As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing the north-central part of the province of Quebec, [2] the Archbishop of Quebec also administers the bishops who head the suffragan dioceses of ...
The Colorado Catholic Herald: Biweekly 1979 Denver: Denver Catholic: Biweekly 1900 Connecticut: Bridgeport: Fairfield County Catholic: Monthly Hartford: The Catholic Transcript: 80,000 [6] Monthly 1898 Norwich: Four County Catholic: Monthly 1989 Delaware: Wilmington: The Dialog: Biweekly Florida: Miami: Florida Catholic: 140,000 Monthly 1939 ...
The book's introduction argues that certain features of Quebec's history make it have a particularly "favorable ecology" for NRMs, including its status as an open and tolerant society and the vacuum opened by the decline of the Catholic Church in Canada, as well as the liberal immigration policies of the province.
The Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec ("Our Lady of Quebec City"), located at 16, rue de Buade, Quebec City, Quebec, is the primatial church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec. [1] It is the oldest church in Canada and was the first church in Canada to be elevated to the rank of minor basilica, by Pope Pius IX in 1874.
The Seminary, painting, 1886 View of the Inner Court of Old Quebec Seminary. The historical site of the Séminaire de Québec in Old Quebec includes a vast number of buildings, some of which date back to the 17th century and are witnesses of the French occupation, while the others were constructed anywhere from the 18th to the 20th century.