A Christmas Message from our Bishop!

Letter from Bishop Dowd

On October 23, 2023, the C.C.C.B. announced Bishop Dowd's appointment as Co-Moderator of the Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches (WCC). We extend to Bishop Dowd our most sincere congratulations for this new appointment.

It is with sadness, that we inform you that Archbishop Marcel Gervais passed away on Sunday August 6,2023.

The present location of the Diocesan Centre is no longer feasible. Ever since the Diocese began leasing at the present location (30 Ste. Anne Road), plans to move were undertaken. The time to vacate the present location has now become necessary.

Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 at 7pm. If forecast calls for rain, please join us for at Ste-Anne-des-Pins

Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 at 7:00 pm 271 Van Horne St, Sudbury, ON P3B 1J1

We are saddened to announce that Mrs. Lucille Durocher, passed away on June 24, 2023. She was the mother of the Most Rev. Paul-André Durocher, Archbishop of Gatineau. Archbishop Durocher was Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie from 1997 to 2002.

In August 2023, the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa will be leaving the Diocese of Sault Ste-Marie. Since their arrival in the Sudbury area in 1896, the community has worked in the Diocese of Sault Ste-Marie for 127 years, setting up many pastoral works of charity in the fields of health and education, and so much more.

Sister Frances Gavin (Sister St. Walter) transitioned into God’s heart for eternity on March 27, 2023, at St. Joseph’s Motherhouse, North Bay, Ontario.

With the support of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), Aid to Church in Need (ACN), Canadian Jesuits International (CJI), Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) Canada, and Development and Peace-Caritas Canada (DPCC) are launching an emergency aid campaign in response to the destructive earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday. They have pledged the total sum of nearly one million Canadian dollars.

We are saddened to announce that Sister Leah Gauthier passed away on December 30, 2022. We offer our most sincere condolences. We assure them of our prayers and support in their time of loss and grief.