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The Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Ioannis Terrae Novae) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is the metropolitan of an ecclesiastical province with two suffragan dioceses: Grand Falls and Corner Brook and ...
The diocese encompasses the islands of five Anglophone countries in the Lesser Antilles : Antigua and Barbuda, which has the see Holy Family Cathedral in St John's, Antigua; Saint Kitts and Nevis, which has a co-cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Basseterre, St Kitts; Anguilla; Montserrat; the British Virgin Islands.
In 1989, Fr. Kevin Molloy went to former St. John's archbishop Alphonsus Liguori Penney to report that a child had seen pornography at the home of a priest Raymond Lahey. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] These allegations were recounted in 2009 when Bishop Lahey was subsequently arrested for separate allegations involving illicit pornography ( see: sexual abuse ...
Rice became bishop of the diocese in 2016. Monsignor John Westhues, formerly of St. Mary's Parish in Joplin, is accused of abusing a Joplin boy born in 1967 who attended the parish church and its ...
The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown has announced the mergers of St. John and St. Peter, and St. Joan and St. Joseph in Canton.
The Basilica-Cathedral is one of the few buildings in St. John's to survive the Great Fire of 1892. During its centenary celebration in 1955, Pope Pius XII raised the cathedral to the rank of minor Basilica. [1] On October 17, 2007, Bishop Martin Currie of the Diocese of Grand Falls was appointed archbishop of St. John's.
The future Archdiocese of St. John's was established on 30 May 1784 as Catholics in Newfoundland gradually gained religious liberty, made explicit by a public declaration by Governor John Campbell. After a request from Irish merchants in St. John's to Bishop William Egan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore , James Louis O'Donel was appointed ...
St. John's College Seminary, the division for students with a high school diploma but without an undergraduate degree, closed in 2002. [9]In the wake of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal enrollment declined from a peak of 86 students in the academic year 2001–02 to 34 for 2005–06.