Diocese of Prince Albert
The Diocese of Prince-Albert, in Saskatchewan, is a Latin Catholic suffragan in the western Canadian ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Regina.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Sacred Heart Cathedral, at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It also has the National Shrine of the Little Flower, in Wakaw, Saskatchewan.
History
- Established on 4 June 1891 as Apostolic Vicariate of Saskatchewan on territory slit off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface.
- Promoted on 1907.12.02 as Diocese of Prince-Albert / Principis Alberten
- Lost territory on 1910.03.04 to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Keewatin.
- Renamed on 1921.04.30 as Diocese of Prince-Albert–Saskatoon.
- Lost territory on 1921.05.06 to establish the Territorial Abbacy of Saint Peter–Muenster.
- Renamed on 1933.06.09 as Diocese of Prince-Albert, having gained territory from Apostolic Vicariate of Keewatin and lost territory to establish the Diocese of Saskatoon.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 40,800 Catholics on 118,834 km2 in 80 parishes with 62 priests, 1 deacon, 79 lay religious and 2 seminarians.Bishops
;Apostolic Vicar of Saskatchewan- Albert Pascal, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Titular Bishop of Mosynopolis
- Albert Pascal, O.M.I.
- Henri-Jean-Maria Prud'homme
- Henri-Jean-Maria Prud'homme, emeritate as Titular Bishop of Saldæ
- Réginald Duprat, Dominican order, emeritate as Titular Bishop of Tremithus
- Léo Blais ; next Titular Bishop of Hieron, first as Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal, then on emeritate
- Laurent Morin, previously Titular Bishop of Arsamosata as Auxiliary Bishop of Montréal ; died 1996
- Blaise-Ernest Morand, succeeded as former Coadjutor Bishop of Prince-Albert
- Albert Privet Thévenot, White Fathers
- Stephen Andrew Hero
- Blaise-Ernest Morand