Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario that includes part of the federal Province of Ontario in inland Canada.
Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of Saint Peter-in-Chains in Peterborough, Ontario.
On March 10, 2017, the Pope named former Hamilton Auxiliary Bishop Daniel J. Miehm as the new Bishop of Peterborough.

History

Established on 25 January 1874 as Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Canada, on territory split off from the Diocese of Kingston in Ontario, the Diocese of Peterborough was first established July 11, 1882 by Pope Leo XIII.

Statistics and extent

As per 2014, it pastorally served 61,700 Catholics on 25,900 km² in 40 parishes and a mission with 69 priests, 8 deacons, 92 lay religious and 3 seminarians.
As of 2006, the diocese contained 88,741 Catholics in 43 parishes, 104 priests, 9 religious priests, 101 Women Religious and 12 deacons.
The Diocese of Peterborough includes the Muskoka and Parry Sound Districts, the counties of Peterborough, Northumberland, and Victoria, that portion of the Regional District of Durham which formally was the County of Durham and five townships of the County of Haliburton.

Bishops

;Apostolic Vicar of Northern Canada
;* Jean-François Jamot , Titular Bishop of Sarepta
;Suffragan Bishops of Peterborough