 It also has 23 religious sisters, 11 religious brothers and 12 permanent deacons.It operates a number of parochial schools in the city of Winnipeg jointly with the Latin Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Boniface.Nestor Dmytriw, the first Ukrainian Catholic priest in Canada, having started parishes in 1897 and 1898 in Terebowla, Manitoba, Stuartburn, Manitoba and Edna, Alberta, advocated a separate Ukrainian Catholic particular church in Canada, but this idea was long opposed by the existing (Latin) Canadian Catholic hierarchy.