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PASTORAL LETTERS  

2024

  • Pentecost Message (2024)
  • Easter Message (2024)

2023

  • Christmas Message (2023)
  • World Day of the Poor Message (2023)
  • Pentecost Message (2023)
  • Easter Message (2023)
  • Ash Wednesday Message (2023)

2022

  • Christmas Message (2022)
  • Euthanasia (MAID) (2022)
  • Pentecost Message (2022)
  • Share Lent (2022)
  • Synod 2021-2023 (2022)

2021

  • Christmas Message (2021)
  • Pentecost Message (2021)
  • Easter Message (2021)
  • Sunday of the Word of God (2021)

2020

  • Christmas Message (2020)
  • Consecration of the Diocese of Victoria to Blessed Mother Mary (2020)
  • World Day of the Sick (2020)

2019

  • Sunday Celebration of the Word (2019)
  • Extraordinary Missionary Month (2019)
  • National Health Care Week (2019)
  • Pentecost Message (2019)
  • Share Lent (2019)
  • World Day of the Sick (2019)
    • BC & Yukon Bishops' Statement on Hydration and Nutrition

2018

  • Findings of Pennsylvania Investigating Grand Jury
    • CCCB Statement
    • Pope Francis' Letter
  • World Day of the Sick (2018)

2017

  • World Day of the Sick (2017)
  • Feast of the Holy Family

2016

  • Our Majestic Lands, a Gift from God
  • Fort McMurray Wildfires
  • Easter Message
  • Share Lent
  • Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (postcard campaign)
  • Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
  • World Day of the Sick
PASTORAL STATEMENTS  

2018

  • Statement regarding Protection of the Unborn
  • Statement regarding Summer Jobs Program

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1-4044 Nelthorpe Street, Victoria BC V8X 2A1
  • Tel: 250-479-1331
  • Fax: 250-479-5423
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  • 8:30am-4:30pm, Mon-Fri
  • Closed: Holidays & Weekends

To request a visit for someone who is sick or dying in the Greater Victoria area, please contact the Hospital Chaplain at (250) 889-3761.  For all other areas, please contact the nearest parish.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria acknowledges with gratitude that we work, play, and pray on the territories and traditional lands of the Coast Salish, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Kwakwaka'wakw Peoples. In the light of this truth, and in humility, we commit ourselves to continue to work for reconciliation, and for respectful relationships with the Creator and all creation.

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