Canada: Bishops, deaths and appointments.

On March 3, retired Bishop Fergus O'Grady of Prince George diocese, in northern B.C., died at age 89. Bishop O'Grady became renowned in the 1950s for his "Frontier Apostles." A company of volunteers from all over the world, they came to help the bishop, who had no money, in his rural diocese of mining and forestry towns to help start parishes and schools and expand the apostolate among Canadian natives

In Montreal, on March 25, 1998, Neil Willard, Auxiliary Bishop for the English section of the Archdiocese of Montreal, died of cancer. He was 60 years of age.

Canada has a new army bishop in the person of Bishop Donald Theriault, 52, from the Diocese of London. He succeeds Bishop Andre Vallee who was appointed Bishop of Hearst in August 1996. In Quebec, the diocese of St-Hyacinthe has been given Fr. Francois Lapierre, P.M.E., Superior-General of the Montreal-based Foreign Mission Society, as its new bishop.

On July 1st the Holy See declared the Ukrainian Eparchy of Toronto vacant, thus ending the nominal rule of Bishop Isidore Borecky, 87, who had refused to resign over the last twelve years. Bishop Cornelius Pasichny, O.S.B.M., 71, of the Ukrainian Eparchy of Saskatoon, was appointed the new bishop of the Toronto Eparchy. Bishop Roman Danylak, 68, Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy, has been assigned to Rome.

Auxiliary Bishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J., 54, of Toronto, has been made Archbishop of Halifax.