Bishop Gérard Dionne †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Jun 1919		Born
1 May 1948	28.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
29 Jan 1975	55.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
29 Jan 1975	55.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Garba
8 Apr 1975	55.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Garba
23 Nov 1983	64.4	Appointed	Bishop of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
23 Jan 1984	64.5	Installed	Bishop of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
20 Oct 1993	74.3	Resigned	Bishop of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
13 May 2020	100.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada

MicroData Summary for Gérard Dionne
(VIAF: 89028877; WikiData: Q1558975)
Bishop Gérard Dionne (born 19 Jun 1919, died 13 May 2020) Bishop Emeritus of Edmundston

Event Place
Birth Place Saint-Basile de Madawaska, Diocese of Chatham, New Brunswick
Ordained Bishop Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, Edmundston, Diocese of Edmundston, New Brunswick
Death Place Edmundston Regional, Hospital, Edmundston, Diocese of Edmundston, New Brunswick

a priest for 72.0 years
a bishop for 45.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Marie-Antoine Roy, O.F.M. †
Bishop of Edmundston, New Brunswick
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Alexander Carter †
Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Fernand Lacroix, C.I.M. †
Bishop of Edmundston, New Brunswick
Archbishop Louis Joseph Jean Marie Fortier †
Archbishop of Sherbrooke, Québec

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Alexander Carter † (1957)
Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario
Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger, P.S.S. † (1950)
Archbishop of Montréal, Québec
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. † (1930)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj † (1913)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Antonio Cardinal Agliardi † (1884)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop François Thibodeau, C.I.M. † (1994)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Saint-Basile de Madawaska, Diocese of Chatham, New Brunswick
Ordained Bishop	Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, Edmundston, Diocese of Edmundston, New Brunswick
Death Place	Edmundston Regional, Hospital, Edmundston, Diocese of Edmundston, New Brunswick

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 30, Number 1,715
d: CB, 14 May 2020
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)
b: Dictionnaire Biographique des Évèques Catholiques du Canada, Page 446, and Page 447

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