Roman Catholic Diocese of Moosonee

The Diocese of Moosonee was a Latin Catholic diocese that included part of the Province of Ontario.
As of 2016, the diocese contained 12 parishes with no active diocesan priests, 3 religious priests, and 7,450 Catholics. It also had 3 religious brothers.
On 3 December 2018, this Diocese merged with the Diocese of Hearst, to create the new Diocese of Hearst–Moosonee.

History

3 December 1938: Established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Baie de James from the Diocese of Haileybury and Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Ontario.
13 July 1967: Elevated as the Diocese of Moosonee.
31 May 2007: Lost territory to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amos.
3 December 2018: Officially suppressed and its territory united into the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hearst to create the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hearst–Moosonee.

Diocesan bishops

The following is a list of the Vicars apostolic and bishops of Moosonee and their terms of service:

Henri Belleau, OMI
Jules Leguerrier, OMI
Vincent Cadieux, OMI
*From 2007 to 2016, he served as Bishop of Hearst as well, an appointment that joined the two dioceses only through him, in persona episcopi, but did not create a single diocesan administration.
Robert Bourgon