Roman Catholic Archbishops of Toronto

This is a list of the Roman Catholic Archbishops of Toronto.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto (Latin: "Torontinus") was created out of the Diocese of Kingston (and within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Québec) December 17, 1841.

Michael Power replaced Bishop Rémi Gaulin, the Bishop of Kingston, as the new head of the diocese of Toronto.

On March 18, 1870, it became an Archdiocese. There are 1.6 million Catholics worshiping in 223 parishs in the Archdiocese, in Toronto itself, York Region, Peel Region, Simcoe County, Dufferin County, and Durham Region. The current archbishop is Thomas Christopher Collins. The cathedral church is St. Michael's Cathedral.

Bishops of Toronto

*Michael Power (1841-1847)
*Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel (1850-1860)
*John Joseph Lynch (1860-1870)

Archbishops of Toronto

*John Joseph Lynch (1870-1888)
*John Walsh (archbishop) (1889-1898)
*Denis T. O'Connor (1899-1908)
*Fergus Patrick McEvay (1908-1911)
*Neil McNeil (1912-1934)
*James Charles McGuigan (1934-1971)
*Philip Francis Pocock (1971-1978)
*Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter (1978-1990)
*Aloysius Matthew Cardinal Ambrozic (1990-2006)
*Thomas Christopher Collins (2007-present)

ee also

* Catholic Register (Canada), the newspaper owned by the Archdiocese of Toronto

* Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

External links

* [http://www.stmichaelscathedral.com/ St. Michael's Cathedral]
* [http://www.archtoronto.org/ Archdiocese of Toronto]
* [http://www.archtoronto.org/archives/ordinaries.htm Ordinaries of Toronto]