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Promoted as Diocese of Kingston on 27 January 1826, as a suffragan diocese of the (meanwhile promoted) Archdiocese of Quebec. Prior to 1841 when the Diocese of Toronto was created, the diocese included areas that are now part of the Dioceses of Hamilton , London , Saint Catharines , Thunder Bay and Toronto .
Paul Shanley – American former priest of the Archdiocese of Boston who was laicized after being convicted a raping a young boy; James Siemens - British/Canadian academic and former priest of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London, a diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the United Kingdom.
In 1956, it became Diocese of Kingston and included all of Jamaica. [1] In September 1967, two suffragans were split from the diocese and the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese. [1] As of 2006, the diocese contains 32 parishes, 30 active diocesan priests, 27 religious priests, and 56,200 Catholics. [2]
On 12 October 2007 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI Coadjutor Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica. After the retirement of Lawrence Aloysius Burke, SJ, he followed him on 12 April 2008 by the Office of the Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica. On 15 April 2011 Benedict XVI accepted his resignation as Archbishop of Kingston.
The list, initially published in 2017 by the archdiocese under Archbishop John C. Wester, includes the names of living and dead priests and other members of the Catholic clergy deemed by the ...
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston may refer to: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston, Canada; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica; See also.
Each province has an archdiocese (headed by an archbishop) and one or more suffragan dioceses (headed by a bishop). Each diocesan bishop, coadjutor bishop, and auxiliary bishop — active and retired — belongs to one of the episcopal conferences listed below. There are also 2 Mission sui iuris in the Caribbean.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he was ordained as a Jesuit priest on 16 June 1968. Burke was appointed Bishop of what is now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau, Bahamas on 17 July 1981 (the first born in the Caribbean), and was consecrated 11 October 1981. In June 1999, Pope John Paul II named Bishop Burke Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nassau.