SAULT STE-MARIE, DIOCESE of - View of a part of the harbor (1948).
SAULT STE-MARIE, DIOCESE of - City and diocese in the province of Ontario, Canada. The diocese of S. S.-M., a suffragan of Kingston, was erected on 16 Sept. 1904. At the time of its foundation the diocese had 26,964 Catholics (of whom 20,090 were French-speaking), 50 churches, 3 hospitals, 30 parishes and 50 missions.
The Franciscans were the first missionaries in the Nipissing region, with Fr. Guillaume Poublain (1622) and Fr. Jacques de la Foyer (1624). The Jesuits Isaac Jogues (canonized) and Charles Raymbault were sent by their superiors to S. S.-M., and in 1668 the Jesuits founded the mission of S. S.-M. The principal apostle of the "Algonquins" at Nipissing and Georgian Bay was Father Claude Pijart, S.J. (see also MAQUETTE, diocese of).
Today the diocese of S. S.-M., whose episcopal see is at North Bay (Ontario), has a Catholic population of 127,063 inhabitants scattered over a territory of 25,000 sq km. Catholics of British origin number 21,134 and those of French origin 63,148. Diocesan priests number 106 and religious 62 (Jesuits, Redemptorists, Resurrectionists). There are also 75 churches, 4 colleges, 8 hospitals, 3 industrial schools for natives and 9 congregations of women.
Bibliography4 worksLe Canada ecclésiastique, 1950, Montréal 1950, pp. 459-468; A. Melançon, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XIII, pp. 487-88; Th. Roemer, The Cath. Church
BIBL.: Le Canada ecclésiastique, 1950, Montréal 1950, pp. 459-468; A. Melançon, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XIII, pp. 487-88; Th. Roemer, The Cath. Church in the U. S., St. Louis-London 1950, p. 37 ff.; J. A. S. Plouffe, La situation du français dans l'Ontario Nord, in Vie française, Aug.-Sept. 1951, pp. 10-30.
Carrière, Gastone. “Sault Ste-Marie, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, coll. 1970–1971. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/sault-ste-marie-diocesi-di.
MLA
Carrière, Gastone. “Sault Ste-Marie, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, coll. 1970–1971. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/sault-ste-marie-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec10_sault_ste_marie_diocesi_di,
author = {Carrière, Gastone},
title = {Sault Ste-Marie, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {X},
pages = {1970--1971},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/sault-ste-marie-diocesi-di}
}
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