VALLEYFIELD, DIOCESE OF. - City in the Province of Québec (Canada).

The diocese of V. covers an area of 2,221 square miles with a total population of 87,000 inhabitants, of whom 77,033 are Catholics. There are 139 diocesan priests and 77 religious (Clerics of St. Viator, Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits); seminarians attend the Major Seminary of Montreal and the university seminary of Ottawa; there are 3 colleges, 1 school of agriculture, 52 churches, 4 orphanages, 3 hospices, 1 hospital, 47 parishes and 2 retreat houses. The Classical College of Rigaud (Collège Bourget, directed by the Clerics of St. Viator) is located in the diocese.

The city of V. (Campivallensis) is situated on the shore of Lake St. Francis (Saint-François) south of the St. Lawrence River. The city was founded in 1855 under the name of St. Cecilia and later became Salaberry or V. in 1874. It is an industrial center.

The diocese of V. was detached from Montreal on April 5, 1892 by Leo XIII with the bull Universalis ecclesiae procuratio and still today forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Montreal. The first bishop was Msgr. Joseph Medard Eymard, later archbishop of Ottawa, who founded a very prosperous classical college, affiliated with the University of Montreal.

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BIBL.: Acta Leonis XIII, XII, Rome 1893, pp. 69-70; J. Dorais, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XV, p. 261; Le Canada eclés., Montreal 1951, pp. 284-94.

Gastone Carrière

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