Gérard Dionne Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Most Reverend
Gérard Dionne
Bishop of the Edmundston Diocese
Church:Roman Catholic Church
See:Diocese of Edmundston
Term:1983–1993
Predecessor:Fernand Lacroix
Successor:François Thibodeau
Ordination:1 May 1948
Birth Date:19 June 1919
Birth Place:Saint-Basile, New Brunswick Canada
Death Place:Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
Previous Post:Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario
Bishop

Gérard Dionne (19 June 1919 – 13 May 2020) was a Canadian Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and the oldest Roman Catholic Bishop of Canada.

Biography

Dionne was born in Saint-Basile, New Brunswick and ordained a priest in Edmundston on 1 May 1948. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario as well as Titular bishop of Garba on 29 January 1975 and consecrated on 8 April 1975. On 26 November 1983 he was appointed bishop of the Edmundston Diocese (installed on 29 January 1984) where he remained until his resignation on 20 October 1993.

In November 2009 a Canadian judge determined that Dionne thwarted a 1983 police investigation into child abuse allegations surrounding Father Bernard Cloutier.[1] He turned 100 in June 2019.[2]

References

  1. http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4547 Canadian bishop thwarted police investigation of abusive priest, judge finds
  2. Web site: L'Évêque golfeur de 100 ans - lavoixdunord.ca . 23 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190720021836/http://www.lavoixdunord.ca/index.php/component/k2/item/5610-l-eveque-golfeur-de-100-ans . 20 July 2019 . dead .

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