Description of a Deanery
In order to foster pastoral care through common activity, several neighbouring parishes can be joined together into special groups known as deaneries. Hence, a Deanery is a pastoral region within the territorial limits of the diocese. Canon 374 §1 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law says: “every particular Church must be divided into distinct parts known as parishes”. Canon 374 §2 of same Code says: “every particular Church can also be divided into distinct groups (...), each of which is composed of several neighbouring parishes”. Each group is called a deanery.
Among the priests residing within that specific territorial region, the diocesan bishop, Archbishop Albert LeGatt, chooses a priest. This priest, called the Dean, leads the deanery. The ordinary can erect as many deaneries as needed. Deans are members of the diocesan presbyteral council.
Our particular Church of Saint Boniface, or archdiocese, is made of seven (7) territorial deaneries. There is also a deanery specifically for First Nations Ministry, comprised of eight communities in the northern part of the Archdiocese, as well as in the urban area of Winnipeg.
Deanery Listing
South Urban English Deanery (SUED)
Christ the King - Dean Fr. Chrysogonus Obinna Agu
Holy Cross
Holy Family / Sainte-Famille
Mary, Mother of the Church
St. Andrew Bobola
St. Bernadette
St. Emile
St. Philip Minh
St. Thomas More
St. Timothy
St. Norbert - English
French Urban Deanery (DUF)
Saint-Boniface Cathedral
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
St. Eugène - Dean Fr. Mudishi Kazadi
St. Kizito African Catholic Community
St. Norbert - French
Sts. Martyrs Canadiens
Kilcona Deanery
Blessed Sacrament
Holy Redeemer - Dean Fr. Anthony Austin
St. Alphonsus
St. Gerard
St. Joseph the Worker
Native Ministry Deanery
Berens River I.R. (Our Lady of the Snow)
Bloodvein I.R. (St. Margaret)
Fort Alexander Sagkeeng I.R. (St. Alexandre)
Hollow Water (Hole River) I.R. (Sacred Heart of Jesus)
Little Grand Rapids I.R. (St. John the Evangelist)
Manigotagan I.R. (St. Louis, King of France)
Pauingassi First Nation
Poplar River (St. John Bosco)
Red River Deanery
La Salle (St. Hyacinthe) - Dean Fr. Gabriel Lévesque
Otterburne (St. Viateur)
St. Jean Baptiste
St. Joseph
St. Malo
St. Malo (Blessed Margaret Pole Catholic Community)
St. Pierre-Jolys (St. Pierre)
Ste. Agathe
Vita (St. Isidore) - Filipino community
Seine River Deanery
Hadashville (St. John the Baptist)
Île des Chênes (Notre Dame de la Miséricorde)
La Broquerie (St. Joachim)
Lorette (Notre Dame de Lorette) - Dean Fr. Jorge Mario de los Rios Londoño
St. Adolphe
St. Labre (St. Benoît Labre)
Ste. Anne des Chênes and Pastoral Region
South Junction (Notre Dame de l’Assomption)
Steinbach (Christ Our Saviour)
Vassar (Sacred Heart of Jesus)
Woodridge (St. Alexandre)
Winnipeg River Deanery
Anola (Our Lady of Hope)
Beausejour (St. Mary)
Cook’s Creek (St. Michael)
East Selkirk (St. Stanislaus)
Garson (Sacred Heart of Jesus)
Grand Marais (St. Theresa of the Child Jesus)
Lac du Bonnet (Notre Dame du Lac) - Dean Fr. Luke Chika Nwoko
Narol (Corpus Christi)
Oakbank (St. John Paul II)
Pinawa (St. Francis of Assisi)
Powerview (Notre Dame du Laus)
St. Georges
Stead (Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
Traverse Bay (Ste. Marguerite)
Mountain Deanery
Bruxelles (St. Gerard Majella)
Carman (Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
Cypress River (Our Lady of the Cypress)
Elm Creek (St. Mary's)
Emerson (Sacred Heart of Jesus)
Haywood (Saint-Denis)
Holland (St. John Berchmans)
Manitou (St. Patrick)
Mariapolis (Our Lady of Assumption)
Morden (St. John the Evangelist)
Morris (St. Maurice)
Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes
Pilot Mound (St. Gregory)
Rathwell (Sainte-Monique)
Saint-Claude
Saint-Léon
Somerset (Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité) - Dean Fr. Marcel Carrière
St. Alphonse
Starbuck (St. Paul)
Swan Lake (St. Martin of Tours)
Treherne (Sacred Heart of Jesus)
