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Jonathon Naylor Editor Catholics across northern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario are celebrating the arrival of a new archbishop. In a ceremony last week in The Pas, Most Rev. Murray Chatlain was installed as the new archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas. Chatlain, 50, was born in Saskatoon and earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Saskatchewan before entering St. Peter's Seminary in London, Ont., where he completed a Master's of divinity. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Saskatoon in 1987, and pastored parishes in the diocese as well as parishes in northern Saskatchewan that are part of the Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort Smith. In 2008, he became a member of the Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. He studied Dene in La Loche, Sask., which is in the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas. The Vatican announced Chatlain's appointment to the Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas late last year. See 'Resign...' on pg. 12 Continued from pg. 7 Chatlain succeeds Most Rev. Sylvain Lavoie, who resigned for health reasons. The Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas comprises the northern parts of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Ontario. The farthest point west is La Loche, Sask., near the Alberta border. The farthest point north is Lac Brochet in Manitoba and the farthest point east is Sandy Lake in northwestern Ontario. The archdiocese has 45 parishes and missions, with a Catholic population of 37,380. _ With files from John Barker, Thompson Citizen
