The Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint John
Charitable organization · Rothesay, New Brunswick · BN 107020331RR0016 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,160,783) as filed with the CRA.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint John is a charitable organization based in Rothesay, New Brunswick, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.1M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 20% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $641K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $133K in 2024, the largest being $72K to Concacan Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The usual activities of a roman catholic diocese including: 1. Providing governance on spiritual and temporal matters to the clergy and laity of the diocese. 2. Care of infirm and retired priests. 3. Education of seminarians.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $2.2M | $2M | — | — | $8.3M |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $1.3M | $913K | — | $76K | $4.9M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $1.9M | — | — | $132K | $12.1M |
| 2021 | $2.8M | $1.6M | $997K | — | $77K | $11M |
| 2020 | $3.6M | $2.2M | $519K | — | $558K | $9.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $133K to 4 qualified donees:
Received $641K from 15 charities:
- Saints Joachim and Ann Parish$162K
- Immaculate Conception Parish$103K
- Our Lady of Peace Parish$76K
- The Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint John$62K
- The Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint John$45K
- Our Lady of Lourdes Parish$39K
- Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish$37K
- St. John Paul II Parish$34K
- Holy Redeemer Parish$28K
- Campton Christie Foundation Inc.$20K
- The Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint John$11K
- The Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint John$8,809
- Good Shepard Parish$5,373
- ST. John the Baptist Parish$4,545
- The Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint John$3,592
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$810K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Christian Riesbeck (bishop); Brian Henneberry (vicar general); Kelly Hudson (director of finance).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint John’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107020331RR0016), or read how we compute the receipt.