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Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic parish church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1879 and served by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. Since 1969 it has been administered by the Society of Jesus on behalf of the Archdiocese of Toronto. It is located at 520 Sherbourne Street in Downtown Toronto.
Pope Francis will say Mass for an expected crowd of 60,000 people on Tuesday, his first big open-air event on a trip to Canada centred around apologizing for the Catholic Church's role in ...
The current Archbishop of Toronto is Frank Leo, who was appointed in February 2023. Mass is celebrated within the Archdiocese of Toronto in 36 ethnic and linguistic communities every week, making it one of the most ethnically diverse Catholic dioceses in the world. [citation needed] Overall, the Archdiocese of Toronto is the largest in Canada.
In 1984, John Paul II became the first pope to visit Canada. [39] He would visit the country for a total of three times, his final visit being for World Youth Day 2002 in Toronto. Pope Francis visited in July 2022 to apologize in the wake of the Indian school scandal. [40] [41]
The trip mainly focused on apologizing for the Catholic Church's role in the Canadian Indian residential school system and on reconciliation with the country's Indigenous peoples. It was the first papal visit to Canada since 2002, when Pope John Paul II visited Toronto for World Youth Day. [3]
The Roman Catholic cathedral of Toronto St. Monica's Yonge and Eglinton: 1908 Modernist St. Nicholas of Bari Earlscourt: 1976 Modernist St. Norbert's North York: 1968 St. Patrick's: Downtown 1850/1908 [note 2] Romanesque Revival Also home to St. Patrick's German Parish St. Paul's Basilica: Corktown: 1822 Italianate Oldest Roman Catholic ...
St Vincent de Paul is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Archdiocese of Toronto.It has been served since 1995 by clergy of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri and St. Philip's Seminary who reside at their primary parish of Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, Parkdale.
Pope Benedict XVI photographed during a Papal Mass celebrated in St. Peter's Basilica in 2013. A Papal Mass is the Solemn Pontifical High Mass celebrated by the Pope.It is celebrated on such occasions as a papal coronation, an ex cathedra pronouncement, the canonization of a saint, on Easter or Christmas or other major feast days.