Tags: Clerical Administrative Region, Diocese.
The Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie Ontario (Latin: Dioecesis Sanctae Mariae Ormensis) was decreed on September 16 1904 and is formed by the southern portions of the districts of Thunder Bay Algoma Sudbury and Nipissing.The area has a long history within the Roman Catholic Church. The Recollets were the first missionaries in the Nipissing region around 1622. A number of Jesuits entered the area in 1641; Father Claude Pijart being the leading missionary of that group.