Diocese of Churchill–Hudson Bay
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Churchill–Hudson Bay is a Latin Catholic suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Keewatin–Le Pas.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens-et-Reine-des-Martyrs, dedicated to the Canadian Martyrs and the Queen of Martyrs, in Churchill, Manitoba.
History
- Established on 1925.07.15 as Apostolic Prefecture of Hudson Bay / Baie d’Hudson / Sinus de Hudson, on territory split off from Apostolic Vicariate of Keewatin
- Promoted on 1931.12.21 as Apostolic Vicariate of Hudson Bay / Baie d’Hudson / Sinus de Hudson
- Lost territory on 1945.07.13 to establish the then Apostolic Vicariate of Labrador
- Promoted on 1967.07.13 as Diocese of Churchill / Churchillpolitan
- Renamed on 1968.01.29 as Diocese of Churchill–Hudson Bay / Churchill–Baie d’Hudson / Churchillpolitan–Sinus de Hudson.
Statistics and extent
As per 2014, it pastorally served 10,370 Catholics on 2,300,000 km2 in 13 parishes and 8 missions with 3 priests, 1 deacon and 2 lay religious.It includes the northeastern part of the federal Province of Manitoba and all except the western extremity of the Territory of Nunavut.
As of 2004, the diocese had 17 parishes, 7 religious priests and 7,900 Catholics, 2 Women Religious, 8 Religious Brothers and 1 permanent deacon.
Bishops
Ordinaries
;Apostolic Prefect of Hudson Bay- Fr. Louis-Eugène-Arsène Turquetil, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
- Louis-Eugène-Arsène Turquetil, Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Phœnicia
- Marc Lacroix, O.M.I., Titular Bishop of Rhosus
- Marc Lacroix
- Marc Lacroix, emeritate as Titular Bishop of Chullu, died 1976
- Omer Alfred Robidoux
- Reynald Rouleau
- Anthony Wiesław Krótki .
Coadjutor bishop
- Armand Clabaut, O.M.I., as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic; did not succeed to see