Roman Catholic Diocese of Chicoutimi

The Diocese of Chicoutimi (Latin: Dioecesis Chicoutimiensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Quebec, centred on the borough of Chicoutimi in the city of Saguenay. It is part of the ecclesiastical province of Quebec.[1][2][3]

Diocese of Chicoutimi Dioecesis Chicoutimiensis
Location
Country	Canada
Ecclesiastical province	Quebec
Statistics
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2016) 282,000 (est.) 275,000 (est.) (97.5%)
Parishes	65
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Cathedral	Saint-François-Xavier Cathedral
Secular priests	112 (diocesan) 21 (Religious Orders) 43 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	René Guey
Bishops emeritus	André Rivest Jean-Guy Couture
Website
catholic-hierarchy.org

On 18 November 2017, Pope Francis appointed René Guay, a priest of Chicoutimi, as the new bishop.[4]

Bishops

• Dominique Racine (1878-1888)
• Louis Nazaire Bégin (1888-1892), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Québec; future Cardinal
• Michel-Thomas Labrecque (1892-1927)
• Charles-Antonelli Lamarche (1928-1940)
• Georges-Arthur Melançon (1940-1961)
• Marius Paré (1961-1979)
• Jean-Guy Couture (1979-2004)
• André Rivest (2004-2017)
• René Guay (2017- )

Coadjutor bishop

• Marius Paré (1960-1961)

Auxiliary bishops

• Marius Paré (1956-1960), appointed Coadjutor here
• Roch Pedneault (1974-2002)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Bertrand Blanchet, appointed Bishop of Gaspé, Québec in 1973
• Serge Patrick Poitras, appointed Bishop of Timmins, Ontario in 2012

References

1. Diocese of Chicoutimi - catholic-hierarchy.org
2. Chicoutimi - Catholic Encyclopedia article
3. Official Web site
4. David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, Rene Guay; retrieved: 2017-11-19.

• Huard, V.A. (1908). "Diocese of Chicoutimi" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company.