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comprised of 436 000 roman catholics, the archdiocese is led by his grace, archbishop richard smith. 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. in total the archdiocese covers some 150,000 square kilometres. it includes 58 parishes with resident priests in cities, towns, rural areas and indigenous communities, and another 64 parishes and missions without resident priests. every sunday, mass is celebrated in at least 16 different languages, including french, spanish, polish, chinese, croatian, portuguese, vietnamese, italian, hungarian, korean, latin, sudanese, and american sign language.