Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moncton

Catholic ecclesiastical territory

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Archdiocese of Moncton Archidioecesis Monctonensis Archidiocèse de Moncton


Location
Country	Canada
Ecclesiastical province	Moncton
Statistics
Area	12,000 km (4,600 sq mi)
Population - Catholics	(as of 2004) 108,000 (51.8%)
Parishes	48
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1936
Cathedral	Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral
Secular priests	44
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Guy Desrochers CSsR
Bishops emeritus	André Richard Ernest Léger Valéry Vienneau
Website
diomoncton.ca

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moncton (Latin: Archidioecesis Monctonensis) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the Province of New Brunswick.

Its suffragan dioceses are Bathurst in Canada, Edmundston, and Saint John, New Brunswick.

On Friday, June 15, 2012, according to the English translation of the Vatican Press Office's Vatican Information Service (VIS) daily news bulletin, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation from the governance of the Archdiocese of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, presented by Archbishop André Richard, C.S.C., in accordance with canon 401 § 1 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. Pope Benedict appointed Bishop Valéry Vienneau as the Metropolitan Archbishop-elect of Moncton to succeed Archbishop Emeritus Richard; Archbishop-elect Vienneau until his appointment had been the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst, a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese based in the city of Bathurst, New Brunswick.

As of 2004, the archdiocese contained 48 parishes, 44 active diocesan priests, 26 religious priests, and 108,000 Catholics. It also had 291 Women Religious, 47 Religious Brothers, and 1 permanent deacon.

Bishops

The following is a list of the bishops and archbishops of Moncton and their terms of service:

Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson (1936–1941)
Norbert Robichaud (1942–1972)
Donat Chiasson (1972–1995)
Ernest Léger (1996–2002)
André Richard (2002–2012)
Valéry Vienneau (since 2012)
Guy Desrochers (since 2023)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Albini LeBlanc, appointed Bishop of Hearst, Ontario in 1940
Daniel Joseph Bohan, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario in 2003

References

Vatican press release Archived 2013-01-14 at archive.today

External links

Archdiocese of Moncton page at catholichierarchy.org

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