TIMMINS, Diocese of. - Diocese and city in the northern part of the provinces of Ontario and Québec (Canada).

Today the diocese of T. has a population of 150,000 souls, of whom 90,029 are Catholics; it has a clergy of 94 diocesan priests and 30 religious (Oblates of Mary Immaculate and Stigmatines) serving 74 parishes. There are 63 churches with a resident priest, 11 missions, 4 hospitals, 1 orphanage, 3 agricultural schools, 1 normal school for teachers and 1 school ménagère. The total area of the diocese of T. is 32,000 miles.

The apostolic vicariate of Temiskamingue was erected on 22 Sept. 1908 by dismemberment of Pembroke. It was then elevated to the diocese of Haileybury, with the same boundaries, by Benedict XV on 31 Dec. 1915. The diocese of Haileybury was dismembered to form the dioceses of Hearst, Amos and the apostolic vicariate of James Bay on 3 Dec. 1938. At the same time a part was also given to the diocese of Trois-Rivières, and on 10 Dec. 1938 the see of Haileybury was transferred to T. (Ontario) and the name of the diocese changed to that of T.

The Gospel was preached in the territory for the first time by Fr. de Bellefeuille, a Sulpician, and by the priest Dupuy. Annual visits were then made until the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate were placed in charge of the territory in 1843. The greatest missionary was Fr. John Nicholas Laverlochère, O. M. I. The missionaries settled at Fort Temiskamingue, then moved to Ville Marie in 1886. The first apostolic vicar was Msgr. Elie-Anicet Latupile.

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BIBL.: Le Canada ecclésiast., Montréal 1951, pp. 384-89; Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 422; The Ontario Cath. Yearbook and Directory, Toronto 1951; AAS, 8 (1916), p. 35; Pius XI, Maximo interest, in AAS, 31 (1939), pp. 90-92; id., Christifidelium bonum, ibid., pp. 96-98; id., Territorio comitatum, ibid., p. 166; id., Ad satius consulendum, ibid., p. 167.

Gastone Carrière

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