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.

[3] From March 28 to April 1, 2022, a delegation of 32 Indigenous Elders, knowledge keepers, residential school survivors, and youth – as well as support staff – journeyed together from across the country to meet with Pope Francis, accompanied by a small group of Canadian Bishops.

Pope Francis then visited sites across the Archdiocese of Edmonton: In August 2023, a former student of St. Mary's Salesian Junior High School, Stephen Bounds, filed a lawsuit claiming he was groomed and sexually assaulted as a 12-year-old by a teacher, Marc Desjardins, in the 1980s.

The Archdiocese includes the greater Edmonton area but also covers a geographic region stretching from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Saskatchewan boundary in the east, from Olds in the south to Grande Cache in the north.

Alberta Beach Bashaw Beaumont Camrose Devon Drayton Valley Edson Enoch Evansburg Fort Saskatchewan Gibbons Grande Cache Hinton

Innisfail Jasper Killam Lacombe Leduc Lloydminster Ma-Me-O-Beach Maskwacis Mayerthorpe Onoway Olds Ponoka Provost Red Deer Rocky Mountain House Rimbey St. Albert Stettler Spruce Grove Sherwood Park Sylvan Lake Trochu Wetaskiwin Wainwright Vermilion Vegreville

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