Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall

Jubilee 2025 – Archbishop’s Dinner

On behalf of Archbishop Marcel Damphousse, the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall is pleased to announce Jubilee 2025, a diocesan-wide celebratory dinner on the evening of Thursday, May 15, 2025. Please save the date in your calendars!

This special Archbishop’s celebration dinner will mark the double jubilee occurring next year: the Holy Year 2025, announced by Pope Francis (www.iubilaeum2025.va), and the fifth anniversary of the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall and the Archdiocese of Ottawa unifying into the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall under the pastoral leadership of Archbishop Damphousse.

More information will be forthcoming in the months ahead. For now, we invite the parishes to use the Save the Date cards attached for inclusion in your respective bulletins.

If you are interested in getting involved as a volunteer leader, or having your business, organization or ministry contribute to the event as a sponsor, please contact Lindsay Charland, Director of Philanthropic Development, at lindsay.charland@ottawacornwall.ca or by phone at 613-738-5025, ext. 212.

Sample Will Wording and Charity Number

It is important that your Will include the correct legal name and charitable registration number in your documents. The legal name for the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall is:

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION OF OTTAWA-CORNWALL Charitable Registration # 128967353 RR0001

Your parish office is able provide you with the legal name for your own parish. However, most Archdiocesan parishes and programs can be designated in your Will as:

The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of OTTAWA-CORNWALL, for the benefit of [ Specific Parish, Cemetery, Ministry or Program ] in [ Town / City ].

You may also consider the following clauses in your Will:

For your parish:

“To pay to (Legal Name of Parish) Roman Catholic Parish for its own use absolutely, the sum of (amount) dollars. I declare that the receipt of the person professing to be the Pastor or Parochial Administrator of the parish shall be sufficient discharge to my Trustee who need not see to the application thereof. I further direct that if the (Name of Parish) does not exist at the time of my death, this bequest shall be paid to the Parish’s successor, and if no such successor exists, then to an institution with similar objectives and goals.”

Making a Declaration

Please email dev@ottawacornwall.ca to make a declaration that you have included the Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall or any for its parishes in your Estate Plans.

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