Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton

Archdiocese of Edmonton Archidioecesis Edmontonensis
Location
Country	Canada
Ecclesiastical province	Edmonton
Statistics
Area	81,151 km2 (31,333 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	1,557,922 368,545 (23.7%)
Parishes	129
Schools	10
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1912-11-30
Cathedral	St. Joseph's Basilica
Secular priests	96
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Richard William Smith
Map
Website
caedm.ca

The Archdiocese of Edmonton (Latin: Archidioecesis Edmontonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese in the Canadian civil province of Alberta. The archbishop's cathedral see is located in St. Joseph Cathedral, a minor basilica in Edmonton. The Archdiocese of Edmonton is the metropolitan see of its ecclesiastical province, which also contains two suffragan dioceses: the Dioceses of Calgary and Saint Paul in Alberta.

On March 22, 2007, Vatican Information Services announced that a Halifax native, Bishop Richard William Smith of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pembroke, Canada, had been appointed as Archbishop of Edmonton by Pope Benedict XVI. On Saturday, July 14, 2012, an official news release from Vatican Information Service (VIS), an arm of the Holy See Press Office, stated that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Gregory Bittman, who until then had been serving as the Judicial Vicar and as Archdiocesan Chancellor, as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Edmonton and Titular Bishop of Caltadria.^[1] On February 6, 2018, Pope Francis appointed him the seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Nelson in southeastern British Columbia.^[2] He left the Archdiocese of Edmonton and took possession of the Diocese of Nelson on April 25, 2018.