The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops () (erected 22 December 1945) is a suffragan of the

Archdiocese of Vancouver The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Vancouver () is a Roman Catholic Latin archdiocese that includes part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Holy Rosary Cathedral (Vancouver), Holy R ...

. The Diocese of Kamloops is led by Bishop Joseph Phuong Nguyen.

Diocesan demographics

The Diocese of Kamloops has a Catholic population of 51,900 (2006) served by 14 diocesan priests, 8 religious priests, 1 permanent deacon and 26 religious sisters and brothers in 25 parishes.

Ordinaries

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(1946–1952), appointed Bishop of Fort William, Ontario * Michael Alphonsus Harrington (1952–1973) *

Adam Exner Adam Joseph Exner, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, OMI (December 24, 1928 – September 5, 2023) was a Canadian Bishop in the Catholic Church, bishop of the Catholic Church. He was the List of Roman Catholic archbishops of Vancouver, A ...

(1974–1982), appointed Archbishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba * Lawrence Sabatini, C.S. (1982–1999) – Bishop Emeritus * David Monroe (2002–2016) – Bishop Emeritus * Joseph Phuong Nguyen (2016–present)

Education

Catholic high schools

St. Ann's Academy remained a high school until 1970. Unable to keep up with the changing demands of B.C.'s curriculum, it reverted to an elementary school. In 1980, Bishop

asked the

Congregation of Christian Brothers The Congregation of Christian Brothers (; abbreviated CFC) is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice, Edmund Rice. Their first school opened in Waterford, Ireland in 1802. At the time of its ...

to open the high school section and in September 1981, St. Ann's Academy became a high school again.

Religious institutes

Men

(CFC) *

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. It was founded on January 25, 1816, by Eugène de Mazenod, a French priest later recognized as a Catholic saint. The congregation wa ...

(OMI)

Women

Congregation of Notre Dame The Congrégation de Notre Dame (CND) is a religious community for women founded in 1658 in Ville Marie (Montreal), in the colony of New France, now part of Canada. It was established by Marguerite Bourgeoys, who was recruited in France to creat ...

(CND) *

Discalced Carmelites The Discalced Carmelites, known officially as the Order of the Discalced Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel () or the Order of Discalced Carmelites (; abbreviation, abbrev.: OCD; sometimes called in earlier times, ), is a Catho ...

(OCD) * Missionary Sisters of Christ the King (MCR) * Sisters of Mission Service (SMS) *

Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception The Franciscans are a group of related organizations in the Catholic Church, founded or inspired by the Italian saint Francis of Assisi. They include three independent religious orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest contem ...

(SFIC)

Sex abuse lawsuit

On August 25, 2020, British Columbia justice David Crossin ordered the office of the Bishop of Kamloops and former priest Erlindo Molon, who was by then 88 years old, to pay $844,140 in damages to Rosemary Anderson, who claimed Molon raped her 75 to 100 times since 1976, when she was 26 years old. During the lawsuit, former Kamloops Bishop

, who would eventually be appointed Archbishop of Vancouver, said during witness testimony that he knew Molon “was molesting people,” including Anderson. Exner also stated that Molon was not stripped of his priesthood status until after Anderson told him that Molon raped her and asked her to marry him.

Publications

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Kamloops Wawa The ''Kamloops Wawa'' (Chinook Jargon: , "Talk of Kamloops") was a newspaper published by Father Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, superior of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada, beginning May 25, 1891, and continui ...

'', a one-time publication of the diocese *''

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'', bi-monthly newspaper started in 1976 as the ''Diocesan Update''. Name changed to the ''Diocesan News'' in 1990.

References

External links

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops
''official site'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Roman Catholic Diocese Of Kamloops

Kamloops Kamloops ( ) is a city in south-central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the North Thompson River, North and South Thompson Rivers, which join to become the Thompson River in Kamloops, and east of Kamloops Lake. The city is the ad ...

Christian organizations established in 1945 Kamloops History of British Columbia Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century