Canadian religious leader. Bishop of what is now known as the diocese of Baie-Comeau. A native of Télévan, near Brieuc (France), he studied with the Eudist Fathers and was ordained priest in that congregation, on June 11, 1892. He then taught in the colleges of the French Eudists before coming to Canada in 1903. After having taught one year at the seminary of Chicoutimi and another year at the college of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, he arrived on the North-Shore region of Québec in 1905 and did pastoral work at Rivière-Pentecôte until 1912. The greatest part of his ministry took place on Anticosti Island, station where he was working when he was appointed Apostolic Vicar of the St.Lawrence Gulf, in March 1922. After his episcopal ordination on June 11 of the same year, he settled in Hâvre-Saint-Pierre where, in the years after, he help building a bishopric, a convent, an hospital. In 1938, he resigned and went residing in the Sacred Heart parish rectory, in Chicoutimi. He passed away in the hospital of that city. His remains were buried at first in the Eudist Fathers provincial cemetery in Charlesbourgh until they were solemnly reinterred, on August 18, 2003, in the Saint-Joseph-de-Manicouagan cemetery, in the episcopal city of Baie-Comeau, on his beloved region of the North-Shore.
Canadian religious leader. Bishop of what is now known as the diocese of Baie-Comeau. A native of Télévan, near Brieuc (France), he studied with the Eudist Fathers and was ordained priest in that congregation, on June 11, 1892. He then taught in the colleges of the French Eudists before coming to Canada in 1903. After having taught one year at the seminary of Chicoutimi and another year at the college of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, he arrived on the North-Shore region of Québec in 1905 and did pastoral work at Rivière-Pentecôte until 1912. The greatest part of his ministry took place on Anticosti Island, station where he was working when he was appointed Apostolic Vicar of the St.Lawrence Gulf, in March 1922. After his episcopal ordination on June 11 of the same year, he settled in Hâvre-Saint-Pierre where, in the years after, he help building a bishopric, a convent, an hospital. In 1938, he resigned and went residing in the Sacred Heart parish rectory, in Chicoutimi. He passed away in the hospital of that city. His remains were buried at first in the Eudist Fathers provincial cemetery in Charlesbourgh until they were solemnly reinterred, on August 18, 2003, in the Saint-Joseph-de-Manicouagan cemetery, in the episcopal city of Baie-Comeau, on his beloved region of the North-Shore.
Bio by: Guy Gagnon
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