Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface

The archdiocese of Saint-Boniface is an ecclesiastical province covering the south of the administrative province of the Manitoba, with the Canada. It is named in the honor of holy Boniface, archbishop of Mainz, because this saint was the owner of the German soldiers who were pioneers of colonization. Its bishop is monseigneur Émilius Goulet.

This archdiocese was canonically set up the September 22nd 1871. Previously, it had been set up in diocese the June 4th 1847. Three years earlier, the April 16th 1844 it had been detached from the Archidiocèse of Quebec to form the apostolic Vicariat the North-West. The diocese had to yield territory in 1862 to create the vicariate of Athabaska-Mackenzie, in 1871 to create the Diocèse of Saint-Albert, in 1882 for the vicariate of the Pontiac, in 1891 for the vicariate of the Saskatchewan, in 1910 for the Diocèse of Regina and in 1952 for the Diocèse of Sault-Holy-Marie.

This diocese was initially populated by the Voyageurs and the Métis, of French and Amerindian stock and Catholic religion. The cathedral of the diocese is also with Saint-Boniface: it is the Basilica-cathedral of Saint-Boniface. Monseigneur Laflèche exerted his ministry in the area before being appointed bishop in the Diocèse of Three-Rivers. The administration diocésaine had been shaken at the time of the saga on the Question of the schools of Manitoba. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Galician were the most nationality in the diocese, with 32.600 diocesans, whereas the Canadian-French were 29.600, the Poles 9.300, the Germans 2000 and the Indians 1000. Today, according to the Annuario pontificio, there are 102.000 catholics in the diocese, that is to say 27% of the total population. The surface of the diocese is of 38.000 km ². Even if the number of priests fell of more than twice in less than forty years, there is no Crise of the vocations as in the Québécois and European dioceses, especially because the catholics are fewer than the Protestants.

The diocese deals with the Catholic schools of the province, of the Liturgie, the ecclesiastical Tribunal, the formation to the ministries, the catechesis, the sacrament of the Confirmation, the services to the secular institutes and the Consecrated life as well as evangelization in Paroisse. The confessionnality of the schools is managed in agreement with the Ukrainian Archéparchie of Winnipeg. The diocese has also an oecumenical service, in relation to the other Christian confessions, which takes as a starting point the Encyclique Ut Unum Sint and by the declaration Dominus Iesus.

There is a monastery of Saint-Beno4it cheese to Winnipeg.

Currency diocésaine

  • “Pinguescent speciosa unset”
  • “the meadows stream of abundance”

This currency comes from the psalm 64.

Religious orders in the history of the diocese

  • Bénédictines
  • Carmelite nuns
  • regular Canons of the Immaculate-Design
  • Congregation of the Sisters Missionaries Oblates of the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Marie
  • Girls of the Cross
  • Brothers of the Christian schools
  • Marist brothers
  • Jesuits
  • Marianistes
  • Missionaries of Salette
  • Fathers Basiliens
  • Fathers Capuchins
  • Fathers Cisterciens
  • Fathers of Chavagnes
  • Fathers Oblats
  • Little sisters of the Holy-Family
  • Rédemptoristes
  • Adoratrices Sisters invaluable Blood
  • gray Sisters
  • Sisters of the Presentation of Marie
  • Sisters of Saint-Joseph of Saint-Hyacinthe
  • Sisters of the Saints Names of Jesus and Marie
  • Trappists

Public men manitobains educated in this diocese

  • Joseph Dubuc, legislator, Minister for the crown, and judges as a chief at the superior court.
  • Marc-Amable Girard, Prime Minister of Manitoba.
  • James McKay, appointed preserving, judge at the superior court and chief mongrel.
  • Royal Joseph, journalist, deputy and historian.

Bishops and archbishops

The archdiocese of Saint-Boniface does not have a Suffragant S.

External bonds

  • Official site of the archdiocese
  • detailed Chronology of the religious history in the West
  • Note of the catholic encyclopedia

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