Diocese of Thunder Bay
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Thunder Bay is a Latin suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada.
Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Patrick's Cathedral, dedicated to St. Patrick, in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Statistics
As per 2014 it pastorally served 81,400 Catholics on 220,000 km2 in 43 parishes with 46 priests, 36 deacons and 16 lay religious .History
- It was erected 29 April 1952, as the Diocese of Fort William, on territories split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface and the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie.
- Renamed on 26 February 1970 as Diocese of Thunder Bay, after its see.
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Fort William- Edward Quentin Jennings, previously Titular Bishop of Sala as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Vancouver, Bishop of Kamloops ; emeritate as Titular Bishop of Assidona, died 1980.
- Norman Joseph Gallagher ; previously Titular Bishop of Adrasus, first as Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Vicariate of Canada, then as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Montréal
- John Aloysius O'Mara, next Bishop of Saint Catharines
- Frederick Bernard Henry ; previously Titular Bishop of Carinola as Auxiliary Bishop of London ; later Bishop of Calgary
- Frederick Joseph Colli, previously Titular Bishop of Afufenia as Auxiliary Bishop of Ottawa .
- Alan Campeau