WINNIPEG, ARCHDIOCESE OF. - Archdiocese and city in the province of Manitoba (Canada). The archdiocese covers a territory situated in the southwest of Manitoba.
In 1951, W. counted 70,815 Catholics, 67 diocesan priests, 62 religious (7 different Congregations), 68 parishes and 80 mission chapels.
The first priest who went for a short time to the region was Fr. Claude Godefroy Coquart, a Jesuit. Then in 1818 the priests of Québec, Joseph Norbert Provencher and Sévère Dumoulin, settled at Saint-Boniface, on the other bank of the Red River (Rivière Rouge).
The development of W. began, with colonization, in 1862. The first Mass celebrated on the territory of the city was said by Msgr. Alexandre Taché, on 15 June 1869, on the occasion of the opening of a Catholic convent, where Father J. McCarthy began to exercise the public ministry. In 1874 the parish church-residence Sainte-Marie was blessed and granted to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate on 3 May 1875. On 8 Dec. 1882 Msgr. Taché inaugurated a second church, the church of the Immaculate Conception, entrusted to Msgr. Cherrier. The archdiocese of W. was created by Pope Benedict XV, without suffragans, on 4 Dec. 1915. The first bishop was Msgr. Alfred Arthur Sinnott.
Bibliography4 worksA.-G. Morice, Hist. de l'Eglise dans l'Ouest canadien, III, Montréal 1912, see index; AAS, 8 (1916), p. 89; Le Canada ecclésiast., Montréal
BIBL.: A.-G. Morice, Hist. de l'Eglise dans l'Ouest canadien, III, Montréal 1912, see index; AAS, 8 (1916), p. 89; Le Canada ecclésiast., Montréal 1951, pp. 532-41; L. Le Jeune, Dict. générale Canada, II, Ottawa 1951, pp. 817-18.
Lesage, Germano. “Winnipeg, arcidiocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 1703. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/winnipeg-arcidiocesi-di.
MLA
Lesage, Germano. “Winnipeg, arcidiocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, col. 1703. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/winnipeg-arcidiocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec12_winnipeg_arcidiocesi_di,
author = {Lesage, Germano},
title = {Winnipeg, arcidiocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {1703},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/winnipeg-arcidiocesi-di}
}
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