Diocese of Grand Falls
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Falls is a Latin suffragan in the Atlantic Canadian ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland.
The cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, in Grand Falls-Windsor, and it has a former Cathedral, also dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador.
History
- Established on 1856.02.29 as Diocese of Harbour Grace / Portus Gratiæ on territory split off from the Archdiocese of St. John's.
- Lost territories repeatedly: on 1870.09.16 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Placentia and on 1945.07.13 to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Labrador.
- It was renamed as the Diocese of Harbour Grace-Grand Falls on 22 February 1958 and again as the Diocese of Grand Falls on 30 October 1964.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 40,900 Catholics on 42,368 km2 in 30 parishes and 43 missions with 29 priests, 1 deacon and 15 lay religious sisters.Bishops
Ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Harbour Grace- John Dalton; Friars Minor
- Enrico Carfagnini, O.F.M., next Bishop of Gallipoli, emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Cius
- Ronald MacDonald, emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Gortyna
- John March
- John Michael O'Neill
- John Michael O'Neill, died 1974
- John Michael O'Neill, died 1974
- Alphonsus Liguori Penney, next Metropolitan Archbishop of St. John's, Newfoundland
- Joseph Faber MacDonald, next Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick ; died 2012
- Martin William Currie, also Apostolic Administrator of Saint John, New Brunswick, Metropolitan Archbishop of St. John's, Newfoundland
- Robert Anthony Daniels, previously Titular Bishop of Scebatiana as Auxiliary Bishop of London .
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Brian Joseph Dunn, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario in 2008