Roman Catholic Diocese of Chicoutimi

The Diocese of Chicoutimi (Latin: Dioecesis Chicoutimiensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Quebec, centred on the borough of Chicoutimi in the city of Saguenay. It is part of the ecclesiastical province of Quebec.[1][2][3]

Diocese of Chicoutimi Dioecesis Chicoutimiensis
Location
Country	Canada
Ecclesiastical province	Quebec
Statistics
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2016) 282,000 (est.) 275,000 (est.) (97.5%)
Parishes	65
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Cathedral	Saint-François-Xavier Cathedral
Secular priests	112 (diocesan) 21 (Religious Orders) 43 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	René Guey
Bishops emeritus	André Rivest Jean-Guy Couture
Website
catholic-hierarchy.org

On 18 November 2017, Pope Francis appointed René Guay, a priest of Chicoutimi, as the new bishop.[4]

Bishops

Dominique Racine (1878-1888)
Louis Nazaire Bégin (1888-1892), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Québec; future Cardinal
Michel-Thomas Labrecque (1892-1927)
Charles-Antonelli Lamarche (1928-1940)
Georges-Arthur Melançon (1940-1961)
Marius Paré (1961-1979)
Jean-Guy Couture (1979-2004)
André Rivest (2004-2017)
René Guay (2017- )

Coadjutor bishop

Marius Paré (1960-1961)

Auxiliary bishops

Marius Paré (1956-1960), appointed Coadjutor here
Roch Pedneault (1974-2002)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Bertrand Blanchet, appointed Bishop of Gaspé, Québec in 1973
Serge Patrick Poitras, appointed Bishop of Timmins, Ontario in 2012

References

Diocese of Chicoutimi - catholic-hierarchy.org
Chicoutimi - Catholic Encyclopedia article
Official Web site
David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, Rene Guay; retrieved: 2017-11-19.

Huard, V.A. (1908). "Diocese of Chicoutimi" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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