HALIFAX, ARCHDIOCESE OF. - City and archdiocese in Canada (North America). On 15 February 1842, Pope Gregory XVI erected the diocese of H., detaching it from Québec. Pius IX conferred on it the title of archdiocese with the creation of the ecclesiastical province on 4 May 1852. This is formed by the dioceses of H. (metropolitan see), Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island) and Antigonish (Nova Scotia).

The civil territory of the metropolitan see comprises the whole peninsula of Nova Scotia (minus three counties) and also the Bermuda Islands (an English possession in the Atlantic). The total population is 391,000 inhabitants, the number of Catholics is 82,000; 95 priests and 49 religious (Eudists, Congregation of the Holy Cross, Oblates of Mary Immaculate) exercise the sacred ministry in the 64 churches with a resident priest and in the 32 missions with a church. There are furthermore 1 seminary, 2 colleges for boys, 5 colleges for girls, 1 orphanage, 1 hospital. The total area of the archdiocese of H. without the suffragans is 13,900 sq m.

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BIBL.: Arch. della S. Congr. de Prop. Fide, Decreti della S. C. dall'a. 1800 all'a. 1819, fol. 328ᵃ; Bullarium Romanum, XVIII, p. 59; Pius IX, Ad Romanum Pontificem, 4 May 1852; Ius. Pont., VI (part 1, p. 131); Le Canada ecclésiastique, Montréal, 1930, pp. 469-76.

Gastone Carrière

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