Retired and new bishops.Ottawa--On December 4,2000, Archbishop James MacDonald, C.S.C. of St. John's, Nfld, retired from his position on reaching the canonical age of 75. In his place, the Pope appointed Ottawa-born Brendan O'Brien, 57, Bishop of Pembroke since 1993. St. John's claims a Catholic population of 120,000. Also on December 4 American-born Fr. John Pazak, CSSR CSSR Council of Societies for the Study of Religion CSSR Canadian Society for the Study of Religion CSSR Cost/Schedule Status Report CSSR Communications System Segment Replacement CSSR Call Setup Success Rate (telecommunications) (Redemptorists), 54, was made Eparch ep·arch n. Eastern Orthodox Church A bishop or metropolitan. [Medieval Greek eparkhos, from Greek, governor, ruler, from eparkhein, to rule over : ep-, epi- (bishop) for Slovak-rite Catholics in Toronto, a position that had been vacant since the retirement in 1996 of Eparch Michael Rusnak, CSsR. The Eparchy ep·ar·chy n. pl. ep·ar·chies A diocese of an Eastern Orthodox Church. [Greek eparkhi of Sts. Cyril and Methodius serves some 10,000 faithful throughout Canada. On December 12 the Holy Father named Father Martin Currie, 57, to the vacant see of Grand Falls, Nfld. Monsignor Currie was vicar-general of the Archdiocese of Halifax at the time of his appointment. The Grand Falls diocese has been vacant since October 1998 when its bishop, Msgr. Faber MacDonald, was moved to the diocese of St John, N.B. Grand Falls has a Catholic population of 30,700 throughout 30 parishes, served by 27 priests with 28 women religious. The Ukrainian-rite Eparchy of Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. has a new bishop with the appointment of Bishop Michael Wiwchar, 68, moved here from the Ukrainian eparchy in Chicago, where he has been bishop since 1993. The Redemptorist bishop was born in Manitoba and served in Saskatoon from 1987 to 1990. The Saskatoon eparchy has stood vacant since 1998. It counts some 20,000 faithful with 32 priests, 5 deacons and 18 men and women religious. Another vacancy, this one crossing the border between Canada and the United States The United States and Canada share a unique legal relationship. U.S. law looks northward with a mixture of optimism and cooperation, viewing Canada as an integral part of U.S. economic and environmental policy. , has been filled with the appointment of a new Eparch for Armenian Catholics in North America. Bishop Batakian, 71, has his headquarters in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to govern nine parishes--two of which are in Canada--for some 36,000 faithful. Until now he was an auxiliary bishop in Beirut, Lebanon. The following episcopal Sees remain vacant: Whitehorse, YU.; Kamloops, BC.; St. Paul, AB.; Saskatoon, SK.; St. Boniface Boniface (bŏn`əfās), d. 432, Roman general. He defended (413) Marseilles against the Visigoths under Ataulf. Having supported Galla Placidia in her struggle with her brother, Emperor Honorius, Boniface fled to Africa in 422. , MB.; Pembroke, ON.; and Valleyfield, QC. |
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