Diocese of Hearst

The diocese of Hearst , in the province of the Ontario, with the Canada, was canonically set up the December 3rd 1938 by the pope Pie XI. Before that, it had set up in apostolic Préfecture Northern of Ontario the April 18th 1919 then in apostolic Vicariat the November 17th 1920. Its bishop is Mgr Vincent Cadieux and its highly skilled bishop is Mgr André Vallée. Hearst is suffragan Archidiocèse of Ottawa, which has as an archbishop André J. Gervais.

The diocese has a surface of 108.830 km ². Its catholic population is of 29.563 inhabitants, 77% of the total population. Hearst is also the capital of the community Free-Ontarian, which is of catholic origin. More than 5.100 faithful are of English language. The Université of Hearst was called before the “Small seminar of Hearst”, created in 1953. The player of the LNH Claude Larose was informed in this seminar.

There is thirty-one priests in this diocese. Fourteen nun live in this diocese, where there are two sectors diocesans and twenty-seven parishes. The crisis of the vocations is not as acute in Hearst as in the Québécois dioceses. The Cathédrale Our-Lady-with-the Assumption of Hearst is the episcopal see of the diocese.

Bishops

Religious orders in the history of the diocese

  • Brothers of the Christian schools
  • Sisters of the Assumption of the Holy-Virgin
  • Gray Sisters of the Cross
  • Sisters Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help
  • Sisters of Saint-Joseph

External bonds

  • Web site of the diocese of Hearst
  • Missa

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