René Audet (January 18, 1920 – June 12, 2011) was a Canadian bishop of the

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. Audet was born in

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and ordained a priest May 30, 1948. He was appointed Auxiliary archbishop of the

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as well as Titular bishop of Chonochora on May 21, 1963, and ordained on July 31, 1963. On January 3, 1968, he was appointed bishop of the

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. He resigned from that position on October 31, 1990.

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