Our bishops.Ottawa--Canada's bishops, gathered at their annual plenary conference, held this year in Cornwall, ON, in mid-September, agreed that Bishop Jacques Berthelet, Vice-President of the CCCB CCCB Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops CCCB Central Christian College of the Bible (Missouri) CCCB Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) CCCB Child Care Choices of Boston for 1999-2001, will assume the presidency for 2001-2003. He succeeds Bishop Gerald Wiesner of Prince George Prince George, city (1991 pop. 69,653), central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers. It is a railroad division point and a distribution center for a lumber region. , BC. The presidency alternates between English-and French-speaking bishops every two years with the vice-president automatically assuming the top office. Ms gr. Berthelet is bishop of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, a Montreal area diocese. The new vice-president is Archbishop Brendan O'Brien Brendan Michael O'Brien (born September 28, 1943) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Archbishop of Kingston, having previously served as Archbishop of Saint John's and Bishop of Pembroke. of St. John's, Nfld. Most Rev. Vital Masse, 64, auxiliary bishop
Also appointed as bishop in September was Fr. Luc Bouchard, 52, rector of St. Joseph Seminary, Edmonton, AB. He becomes the Ordinary of St. Paul, AB just north of Edmonton; it has a Catholic population of 53,000. It includes the boom town Fort McMurray, the hub of the tar sands oil exploration. Bishop Bouchard was born in Cornwall and ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. for that diocese. |
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