Catholic Cemeteries of Halifax

About Us

As a ministry of the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth, Catholic Cemeteries of Halifax staff is here to help you through the process of burial. Understanding staff are ready to assist you with your needs.

Serving families since 1843, our cemeteries have served as the final resting place for loved ones. The catholic cemetery is a place of peace for families. The Grounds and Columbarium provide beautiful resting places for the deceased.

Our Catholic Cemeteries are holy places for prayer, for memory, for service, for renewed purpose.

Catholic Cemeteries of Halifax cares for: Gate of Heaven, Lower Sackville; Holy Cross, South Park Street, Halifax; Mount Olivet, Mumford Road, Halifax.

A Catholic Cemetery has a two-fold purpose in the community. They provide a permanent resting place for the remains of our beloved dead. They offer a comforting environment in which love for family and friends is remembered, hope is rekindled, faith is awakened, renewed and strengthened. Faith and hope in our own resurrection are focal points in the way we honour the passing of a person from this life to the next.

The Catholic Cemetery is a sacred place; it is holy ground where our faithful departed await the resurrection to eternal life. The respect we show the faithful departed and the places where they rest remind us of our hope of joyfully greeting them again.

 Burying the Dead - A Corporal Work of Mercy

For the Christian, burying the dead is one of the Corporal Works of Mercy.  Our physical death marks the conclusion of our earthly baptismal journey and our transition into eternal life. Our Christian Catholic burial practices are an expression of our hope in the resurrection.  For this reason, the body is to be buried or entombed in a sacred, public place, where the grave will bear the name of the deceased – the name by which the person was baptized into the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, the name that establishes the identity of the deceased as a child of God.  As such, a nameless disposal of cremated remains, such as scattering or dispersing, does not reflect the sacredness of the human body, nor does it comply with the teachings of the Church.