New bishops. (News in Brief: Canada).Ottawa--Quebec City has a new archbishop. Bishop Marc Ouellet His Eminence Marc Cardinal Ouellet, PSS (born 8 June 1944 in Lamotte, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the present Archbishop of Quebec, and thus Primate of Canada. He was elevated to a cardinal on 21 October 2003. , P55 (Sulpician), 58, secretary of the Pontifical Council Pontifical Council may refer to:
Born in Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Quebec, he was ordained a priest in 1951. He was appointed Archbishop of Quebec in 1990 and retired in 2002. , 76, in November 2002. The Quebec archdiocese has 852 priests, 85 deacons, 235 lay pastoral assistants, and 900,000 faithful. It is also Canada's primatial see which in the seventeenth century, encompassed practically all of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Appointed as bishop of Gaspe is Bishop Jean Gagnon, 61, hitherto auxiliary in Quebec City. Bishop Gagnon has been apostolic administrator An apostolic administrator in the Roman Catholic Church is a prelate appointed by the Pope to serve as the ordinary for an apostolic administration. An apostolic administration can either be an area that is not yet a diocese (a stable apostolic administration) or for a of the Gaspe diocese since the sudden resignation of Bishop Raymond Dumais, 52. The diocese has 66 priests, 171 religious, 3 deacons, and 94,000 faithful. News about retired Bishop Dumais became available on December 6, 2002. In an interview with Radio-Canada, Dumais acknowledged that he is in love with a woman and living with her. He is seeking to be returned to the lay state. "I don't feel I'm living in sin. I feel I'm living something special," he said. Comment: Alas for the retired bishop, sin is not a matter of feeling but of objective reality Before he resigned in 2001, Dumais had already suffered a lengthy (seven-month) breakdown due to the mental conflict between his duties and his feelings. Father Dumais' appointment as bishop in 1994 was also controversial. He was one among hundreds of "middle-management" Catholics in Quebec who earlier had signed a letter rejecting the 1968 encyclical encyclical, originally, a pastoral letter sent out by a bishop, now a solemn papal letter, meant to inform the whole church on some particular matter of importance. Benedict XIV circulated the first known encyclical in 1740. Humanae vitae, when the issue came up again with Pope John Paul's 1993 encyclical The Splendour of Truth (Veritatis splendor). He had to make a special trip to Rome to explain his position after the appointment had already been made. |
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