Gérard Dionne

The Most Reverend Gérard Dionne
Bishop of the Edmundston Diocese
Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Diocese of Edmundston
In office	1983–1993
Predecessor	Fernand Lacroix
Successor	François Thibodeau
Previous post(s)	Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario Bishop
Orders
Ordination	1 May 1948
Personal details
Born	(1919-06-19)19 June 1919 Saint-Basile, New Brunswick Canada
Died	13 May 2020(2020-05-13) (aged 100) Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada

Gérard Dionne (19 June 1919 – 13 May 2020) was a Canadian Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and the oldest Roman Catholic Bishop of Canada.

Biography

Dionne was born in Saint-Basile, New Brunswick and ordained a priest in Edmundston on 1 May 1948. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario as well as Titular bishop of Garba on 29 January 1975 and consecrated on 8 April 1975. On 26 November 1983 he was appointed bishop of the Edmundston Diocese (installed on 29 January 1984) where he remained until his resignation on 20 October 1993.

In November 2009 a Canadian judge determined that Dionne thwarted a 1983 police investigation into child abuse allegations surrounding Father Bernard Cloutier.^[1] He turned 100 in June 2019.^[2]

References

1. Canadian bishop thwarted police investigation of abusive priest, judge finds
2. "L'Évêque golfeur de 100 ans - lavoixdunord.ca". Archived from the original on 20 July 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy
• Edmundston diocese
• Sault Sainte-Marie, Ontario Diocese
• Canadian bishop thwarted police investigation of abusive priest