Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough
The Diocese of Peterborough is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Ontario, Canada. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Kingston, Ontario.
Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Peter-in-Chains in Peterborough, Ontario.
On March 10, 2017, Pope Francis named former Hamilton Auxiliary Bishop Daniel J. Miehm as the new Bishop of Peterborough.
History
Established on 25 January 1874 as Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Canada, on territory split off from the Diocese of Kingston in Ontario, the Diocese of Peterborough was first established July 11, 1882 by Pope Leo XIII.Statistics and extent
As per 2014, it pastorally served 61,700 Catholics on 25,900 km2 in 40 parishes and a mission with 69 priests, 8 deacons, 92 lay religious and 2 seminarians.As of 2006, the diocese contained 88,741 Catholics in 43 parishes, 104 priests, 9 religious priests, 101 Women Religious and 12 deacons.
The Diocese of Peterborough includes the Muskoka and Parry Sound Districts, the counties of Peterborough, Northumberland, and Victoria, that portion of the Regional District of Durham which formally was the County of Durham and five townships of the County of Haliburton.
Bishops
;Apostolic Vicar of Northern Canada;* Jean-François Jamot, Titular Bishop of Sarepta
;Suffragan Bishops of Peterborough
- Jean-François Jamot
- Thomas Joseph Dowling ; next Bishop of Hamilton
- Richard Alphonsus O’Connor
- Richard Michael Joseph O'Brien, next Titular Archbishop of Amorium as Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston, succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Kingston
- Dennis P. O'Connor
- John Roderick MacDonald, next Titular Bishop of Ancusa as Coadjutor Bishop of Antigonish, succeeding as Bishop of Antigonish
- Joseph Gerald Berry, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Halifax and President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Benjamin Ibberson Webster, previously Titular Bishop of Paphus as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto ; emeritate as Titular Bishop of Tigamibena
- Francis Anthony Marrocco, previously Titular Bishop of Limnæ (in Pisidia) as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto
- James Leonard Doyle, died 2004
- Nicola De Angelis, previously Titular Bishop of Remesiana as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto
- William Terrence McGrattan, previously Titular Bishop of Furnos minor as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto ; Bishop of Calgary .
- Daniel J. Miehm, previously Titular Bishop of Gor as Auxiliary Bishop of Hamilton .
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- David Joseph Scollard, appointed Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario in 1904
- Michael Mulhall, appointed Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario in 2007