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The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto is the sole eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the Chaldean Catholic Church (Syro-Oriental Rite) in Canada. It depends directly on the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon , but it not part of any ecclesiastical province .
A French priest accompanied the explorer Jacques Cartier, performing the first ever recorded Holy Mass on Canadian soil on July 7, 1534, on the shores of the Gaspé Peninsula. It was followed by conversion of the First Nations into the fold of Catholicism. Soon after, more and more religious congregations set foot in Canada especially among ...
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St. Helen's Parish was established in 1875 in Brockton village, just outside the city of Toronto's western boundaries.The parish was formed from St. Mary's Parish.The first pastor for the Church was Rev. Father Shea. St. Helen's Church was original located on the southwest corner of Lansdowne Avenue and Dundas Street West, one block west of its current location. [1]
Statue of Mary and Christ child outside St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa The central theme of Catholic history from the 1840s through the 1920s was the contest for control of the church between the French Canadians, based in Quebec, and the English-speaking Irish Canadians (along with smaller numbers of ...
Saint Ilar, 'St Hilary's Church', Llanilar, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Ilar is a very obscure saint and few details survive apart from his name. [22] Surviving records name Saint Ilar as a Breton companion of Padarn [23] and Cadfan's [2] [24] 6th-century mission to Wales. He may have come from Armorica. [1]
Alice Doheny (née Ryan; 16 July 1830 – 27 October 1906) was an Irish-Canadian heiress, suffragette, and sister of railway magnates Hugh Ryan and John Ryan. [1] [2] The daughter John Patrick Ryan and Margaret Conway, Ryan moved with her family to Montreal, Canada, after her father sold Gortkelly Castle to another branch of the Ryan clan in Tipperary.
In 1907, Dennis O'Connor, Archbishop of Toronto, consecrated a small chapel at Waubaushene, near the site where Sts. Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant were martyred. In 1925, Fr. John M. Filion, provincial superior of Jesuits in Canada, decided to pursue the construction of a larger church closer to the mission. [ 2 ]