The Archdiocese of Québec ( la, Archidiœcesis Quebecensis; french: Archidiocèse de Québec) is a

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, Canada. Being the first

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in the

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north of

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, the Archdiocese of Québec is also the

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for Canada. The Archdiocese of Québec is also the ecclesiastical provincial for the dioceses of

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and

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. The archdiocese's cathedral is

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History

New France

From the beginning of

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of the

, the Church influenced the politics and policies of

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. Even during the first voyages of

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in the 16th Century, missionary priests would accompany the

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on their voyages to the New World. After two failed attempts to settle in

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, in 1608,

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was founded by

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, giving the Church a solid base to spread the faith to the Indigenous populations. In 1615, the Recollet missionaries arrived in Québec, followed by the

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10 years later. Their presence would help drive the colonies, giving the colonizers a moral reason for their presence, as well as giving the Church an influential position in domestic and local policy. In 1658, the Church would establish an Apostolic Vicariate by

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, 124 years since the first voyage of Jacques Cartier in 1534. The vicar apostolic was

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. As The vicar apostolic of Québec, Laval was a central member of the

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. Arguably, while he was charged with only the spiritual matters of New France, he had the most influence as he was the highest representative of the Church, as well as having excellent relations with

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. In 1663, Laval would establish the Seminary of Québec. In 1674, with the population of New France growing rapidly and the Seminary of Québec enrolling more students,

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elevated the Apostolic Vicariate to a

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, which would depend directly on the

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; this provision would later secure its permanence after

passed into the hands of

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in 1760. At its peak, in 1712, the Diocese of Québec covered the entire American continent to the Gulf of Mexico. Only the British colonies that would later become the United States and the Spanish colony of Florida were not under the authority of the Bishop of Quebec.

British Rule

Under British rule, the peoples of Québec were discriminated against in respect of their Catholic faith and their language. Any person in the

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wanting to take a position had to take the

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which denounced their faith. Because almost all the colonists were French-speaking Catholics, the Test Oath prevented the local population from participating in local politics. However, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the

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that allowed Québec to restore the use of French customary law ("'") in private matters alongside the British common law system, and allowed the Church to collect tithes on Roman Catholics businesses and property. In 1819, the diocese was elevated to an

. By 1840, political leaders formally recognized the Church. The Archdiocese of Québec was split into new dioceses as the population increased.

Today

It lost large pieces of its territory with the formation of the Dioceses of Halifax and Kingston in 1817, the Diocese of

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in 1829, the Diocese of

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in 1844 and the Diocese of

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in 1852. It is common, but not inherent to the title, for the Archbishops of Québec to either be named to the cardinalate while serving or when transferred to a larger archdiocese or to a post in the Roman Curia.

Primate of Canada

Since 24 January 1956, the Archbishop of Québec has the ceremonial title of

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of Canada; the title was given to the reigning Archbishop of Québec by

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Bishop's Palace and Chapel of Bishop's Palace

Built in 1693 to 1694 on order by

Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de St. Vallier (November 14, 1653 – December 26, 1727) is most known as Quebec's second bishop. Born in the southeastern French city of Grenoble in 1653, to a wealthy land owning family, Saint-Vallier swi ...

, the Chapel of Bishop's Palace was a private place of worship for the Bishop of Quebec and located within the residence (or Bishop's Palace). Following the British conquest the Chapel was leased to Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec from 1777 to 1791 and successors

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and

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from 1791 to 1833. The chapel was demolished in 1831 to build a new addition where the two legislative houses met from 1834 to 1839. The new addition and Bishop's residence would survived until it was demolished in 1852-1853. A new Bishop's residence by Thomas Baillarge was built in 1844 to 1847 slight north. Preparing for the return of Parliament to Quebec City, a new parliamentary building was completed from 1853 to 1854 on Côte de la Montagne, but it burned down shortly after. Parliament relocated within the city to Quebec Music Hall and

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until capital rotated out again. Rebuilt by 1860 and served Parliament until 1866. The building was repurposed as Parliament of the new province of Quebec in 1867. A fire destroyed this building in 1883 and decision was made to relocate to the nearly complete new

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which had begun construction since 1877. The burned out building was demolished by 1894. Today the old Parliament site is now home to

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Leadership

Ordinaries

Below is a list of individuals who have led the Archdiocese of Quebec and its antecedent jurisdictions since its founding.

Apostolic Vicars of New France

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(1658–1674)

Bishops of Québec

(1674–1688) *

Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de St. Vallier (November 14, 1653 – December 26, 1727) is most known as Quebec's second bishop. Born in the southeastern French city of Grenoble in 1653, to a wealthy land owning family, Saint-Vallier swi ...

(1688–1727) *

Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay (September 20, 1663 – November 28, 1741) was bishop of the diocese of Quebec from 1727 to 1733, although he never went to Canada. From a noble family, he joined the Capuchins. Appointed Vicar-General for Louis ...

(1727–1733) *

Pierre-Herman Dosquet Pierre-Herman Dosquet (4 March 1691 – 4 March 1777) was the fourth Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, bishop of Quebec. Life Pierre-Herman Dosquet was born in Liège, Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the son of Laurent and Anne-Jeanne Goffar. His ...

(1733–1739) *

François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière (June 16, 1711 – August 20, 1740) was the fifth bishop of the diocese of Quebec (1739–1740). He was trained in France and had a doctor of theology from the Sorbonne. Biography François-Louis w ...

(1739–1740) *

Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand Henri-Marie Dubreuil de Pontbriand ( c. January 1708 – 8 June 1760), who became the sixth bishop of Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec, was from a titled family and grew up at the Pontbriand Château (now in Ille-et-Vilaine), France. Biography He ...

(1741–1760) *

Jean-Olivier Briand Jean-Olivier Briand (January 23, 1715 – June 25, 1794) was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Quebec from 1766 to 1784. Life Jean-Olivier Briand was born at Plérin, Brittany on January 23, 1715. He studied at the Seminary of St. Brieu ...

(1766–1784) *

Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'Esgly Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d’Esgly (24 April 1710 – 4 June 1788) was the eighth bishop of the diocese of Quebec. Life Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d’Esgly was born 24 April 1710,Jean-François Hubert Jean-François Hubert, (February 23, 1739 – October 17, 1797), bishop of Quebec, trained at the Sulpician seminary in Montreal. He was taken under the protection of Bishop Dubreil and served for a time as the bishop's secretary. Life Jean- ...

(1788–1797) *

Pierre Denaut Pierre Denaut (20 July 1743 – 17 January 1806) was the tenth bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec and the last before it became an Archdiocese. He served as bishop from 1797 to 1806. Life Pierre Denaut was born in Montreal on 20 Jul ...

(1797–1806) *

Joseph-Octave Plessis Joseph-Octave Plessis (March 3, 1763 – December 4, 1825) was a Canadian Roman Catholic clergyman from Quebec. He was the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec after the diocese was elevated to the status of an archdiocese. ...

(1806–1819)

Archbishops of Québec

(1819–1825) *

Bernard-Claude Panet Bernard-Claude Panet (January 9, 1753 – February 14, 1833) was a Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Quebec. Born in Quebec City, the son of Jean-Claude Panet, he was from a family of 14 children. He had two siblings who gained some f ...

(1825–1833) *

Joseph Signay Joseph Signay, (8 November 1778 – 3 October 1850), was the third archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec. Signay was ordained in 1802 by Bishop Pierre Denaut and began a number of years of parish duties. In 1814, he was appoin ...

(1833–1850) *

Pierre-Flavien Turgeon Pierre-Flavien Turgeon (November 13, 1787 in Quebec City, Quebec – August 25, 1867 in Quebec City) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Quebec for 17 years. Life Pierre-Flavien Turgeon was born in Québec on November 13, 17 ...

(1850–1867) *

Charles-François Baillargeon Charles-François Baillargeon (April 26, 1798 – October 13, 1870) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and archbishop. Biography He was from Lower Canada and studied at the Collège de Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud and Collège de Nico ...

(1867–1870) * Cardinal

Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau (February 17, 1820 – April 12, 1898) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1871 until his death in 1898. The first Canadian cardinal, he was elevated to the Coll ...

(1870–1898) * Cardinal

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(1898–1925) *

Paul-Eugène Roy Paul-Eugène Roy (8 November 1859 – 20 February 1926) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, and Archbishop of Quebec The archbishop of Quebec is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, who is responsible for looking after it ...

(1925–1926) * Cardinal Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau (1926–1931) * Cardinal

Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve (November 2, 1883 – January 17, 1947) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1931 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1933. Biography ...

(1931–1947) * Cardinal

Maurice Roy Maurice Roy (January 25, 1905 – October 24, 1985) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1947 to 1981, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. Early life Roy was born in Quebec ...

(1947–1981) * Cardinal

Louis-Albert Vachon Louis-Albert Vachon, (February 4, 1912 – September 29, 2006) was a Canadian educator, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and Archbishop of Quebec. He became a cardinal on May 25, 1985. History Vachon was born and raised in Saint-F ...

(1981–1990) *

Maurice Couture Maurice Couture, (November 3, 1926 – January 19, 2018) ...

(1990–2002) * Cardinal

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(2002–2010), appointed Prefect of the

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* Cardinal

Gérald Lacroix Gérald Cyprien Lacroix (; born July 27, 1957) is the Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 22 February 2011. He has been a cardinal since 22 February 2014. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop ...

(2011–present)

Coadjutor archbishops

Under the

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, the

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has the right of succession (''cum jure successionis'') upon the death, retirement or resignation of the diocesan bishop he is assisting. All coadjutor ordinaries except for Charles-François Bailly de Messein eventually succeeded to become head of the Archdiocese of Quebec or its antecedent jurisdictions. *

(1713–1727), as coadjutor bishop *

(1729–1733), as coadjutor bishop *

(1785–1788), as coadjutor bishop * Charles-François Bailly de Messein (1788–1794), as coadjutor bishop; did not succeed to the see *

(1794–1797), as coadjutor bishop *

(1800–1806), as coadjutor bishop *

(1806–1825) *

(1826–1833) *

(1834–1850) *

(1851–1867) *

(1892–1898); future Cardinal *

(1920–1925)

Auxiliary bishops

Unlike coadjutors, auxiliary bishops do not have the right of succession, per canon 975, §1 of the

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. Four auxiliaries went on to become Archbishop of Quebec. *

(1727–1729), appointed coadjutor of this archdiocese * Aeneas Bernard MacEachern (1819–1821), appointed Bishop of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island *

Jean-Jacques Lartigue Jean-Jacques Lartigue, S.S., (20 June 1777 – 19 April 1840) was a Canadian Sulpician, who served as the first Catholic Bishop of Montreal. Early life Lartigue was born to a noted Montreal family, the only son of Jacques Larthigue, a surge ...

(1820–1836), appointed Bishop of Montréal, Québec *

Pierre-Antoine Tabeau Pierre-Antoine Tabeau (11 October 1782 – May 18, 1835) was a Roman Catholic priest and vicar general. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Tabeau, a trader and militia man who was involved in the fur trade out of New France. He was a protégé of ...

(1834); did not take effect *

Joseph Norbert Provencher Joseph-Norbert Provencher (February 12, 1787 – June 7, 1853) was a Canadian clergyman and missionary and one of the founders of the modern province of Manitoba. He was the first Bishop of Saint Boniface and was an important figure in the histo ...

(1820–1844), appointed Vicar Apostolic of North-West (Nord-Ouest) *

(1908–1920), appointed coadjutor of this archdiocese *

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(1924–1926), appointed Bishop of Valleyfield, Québec * Joseph-Omer Plante (1927–1948) * Georges Léon Pelletier (1942–1947), appointed Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Québec * Charles-Omer Garant (1948–1962) *

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(1952–1983) * Laurent Noël (1963–1975) (Apostolic Administrator of Hauterive, Québec, 1974–1975), appointed Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Québec *

(1977–1981), appointed Archbishop of this archdiocese; future Cardinal * Jean-Paul Labrie (1977–1995) *

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(1982–1988), appointed Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec; later returned to this archdiocese as Archbishop * Marc Leclerc (1982–1998) *

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(1987–1990), appointed Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec *

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(1989–1996), appointed Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec *

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(1994–2008), appointed Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec * Jean Gagnon (1998–2002), appointed Bishop of Gaspé, Québec * Pierre-André Fournier (2005–2008), appointed Archbishop of Rimouski, Québec *

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(2005–2011), appointed Bishop of Amos, Québec *

(2009–2011), appointed Archbishop of this archdiocese; future Cardinal *

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(2009–2012), appointed Bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec *

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(2011–2015), appointed Archbishop of Rimouski, Québec *

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(2016–2019), appointed Bishop of Joliette, Québec * Marc Pelchat (2016–present) * Martin Laliberté (2019–present)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

* Thomas Maguire, appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Nova Scotia in 1819; did not take effect *

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, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Kingston, Ontario in 1833 * Michael Power, appointed Bishop of Toronto, Ontario in 1841 * William Dollard (Dullard), appointed Bishop of New Brunswick in 1842 *

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, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Oregon Territory, USA in 1843 * John Charles Prince, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Montréal, Québec in 1844 * Augustin Magloire Alexandre Blanchet, appointed Bishop of Walla Walla, Oregon, USA in 1846 * Joseph La Rocque, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Montréal, Québec in 1852 *

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, appointed Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec in 1866 * Jean-Pierre-François Laforce Langevin, appointed Bishop of Rimouski (St. Germain of), Québec in 1867 * Olivier Elzéar Mathieu, appointed Bishop of Regina, Saskatchewan in 1911 * Arthur Douville, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec in 1939 *

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, appointed Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec in 1951 *

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, appointed titular Archbishop in 1952 *

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, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Québec in 1960 *

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, appointed Bishop of Hauterive, Québec in 1975 * Noël Simard, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario in 2008

Recent appointments

On February 22, 2011,

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(VIS) and

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(CNS), announced that

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had named the 53-year-old Bishop

, until then an Auxiliary Bishop (assistant bishop) of Quebec (since 2009), as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada. As archbishop, he succeeds

, his former superior, who became the prefect of one of the Roman Curia's most important administrative departments, the Sacred

, in July 2010. Lacroix is a member of the Quebec-based Saint Pope

Pius X Secular Institute The Secular Institute Pius X or Pius X Secular Institute (ISPX), is a Roman Catholic men's Clerical Secular Institute of Consecrated Life of Diocesan Right headquartered in Charlesbourg, Quebec City, Canada. History It was established by Hen ...

. Lacroix was born in

Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset, Quebec Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset is a parish municipality in the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The municipality is named after Hilary of Poitiers and the county of Dorset in England. ...

, on July 27, 1957, the eldest son in a family of seven children. At the age of 8, his family settled in Manchester, New Hampshire, Manchester, largest city of New Hampshire (in the U.S.), where he attended the parochial elementary school of Saint Anthony of Padua and Trinity High School (Manchester, New Hampshire), Trinity High School. He studied one year at Saint Anselm College in neighboring Goffstown, New Hampshire, Goffstown. He joined the Pius X Secular Institute as a consecrated lay member in 1975, and made perpetual vows in 1982. The same year, he was named secretary general of the institute. He earned a master's degree in pastoral theology at Laval University, and from 1985 to 1987, directed the La Maison du Renouveau, a formation and Christian renewal centre. He was ordained a priest on October 8, 1988, in the parish of Notre-Dame-de-la-Recouvrance. He was ordained to the episcopacy as Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec on May 24, 2009. On December 12, 2011, Pope Benedict appointed Gaetan Proulx and Denis Grondin Jr. as Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese of Quebec to serve under Lacroix. They were ordained to the episcopacy as Auxiliary Bishops of Quebec on February 25, 2012. On May 4, 2015, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Grondin as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rimouski, Archbishop of Rimouski. On July 2, 2016, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Proulx as Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaspé, Bishop of Gaspé. On October 25, 2016, the same pope appointed

and Marc Pelchat as Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese. In 2019, he transferred Bishop Corriveau to a diocesan post elsewhere, and on November 25 appointed Martin Laliberté, P.M.E. as auxiliary here.

References

External links

* * * * Voisine, Nive. Histoire Du Catholicisme Québécois. Montréal, Montreal: Boréal Express, Boreal express, 1984. {{Authority control Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, Organizations based in Quebec City Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec,