Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rimouski, Canada 🇨🇦

Continent: North America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese Metr. Archdiocese

Name: Rimouski / Sancti Germani (Latin)

Suffragan Sees: Baie-Comeau, Gaspé

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Germain de Paris (May 28)

Cathedral Dedication Anniversary: September 9 (1953)

Liturgical Calendar 📅

History

1867.01.15: Established as Diocese of Saint-Germain de Rimouski / Sancti Germani (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Québec and became suffragan of Québec)
1869.08.17: Gained territory from the suppressed Apostolic Prefecture of North Pole
1882.05.29: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Golfe Saint-Laurent
1922.05.05: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Gaspé
1946.02.09: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Rimouski / Sancti Germani (Latin) (with suffragan sees Gaspé and Golfe Saint-Laurent)

Contact Info

Address: 34 rue de l’Évêché Ouest, C.P. 730, Rimouski, QC G5L 7C7, Canada

Phone: +1 (418) 723-3320

Present Prelates

Metropolitan Archbishop (2015.05.04 – ...):

Archbishop Denis Grondin (71)

Ordinaries

Metropolitan Archbishops of Rimouski (Roman Rite)

Archbishop Denis Grondin (71)
(2015.05.04 – ...)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada)

Laissez-vous réconcilier avec Dieu

Born:	1954.10.23 (Rimouski, QC, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1989.05.21
Consecrated Bishop:	2012.02.25

Priest of Québec (Canada) (1989.05.21 – 2011.12.12)

Titular Bishop of Campli (2011.12.12 – 2015.05.04)

Auxiliary Bishop of Québec (Canada) (2011.12.12 – 2015.05.04)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada) (2015.05.04 – ...)

Archbishop Pierre-André Fournier
(2008.07.03 – 2015.01.10)

Heureux les pauvres

Born:	1943.06.08 (Plessisville, QC, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1967.06.10
Consecrated Bishop:	2005.04.10
Died:	2015.01.10 (Rimouski, QC, Canada † 71)

Priest of Québec (Canada) (1967.06.10 – 2005.02.11)

Titular Bishop of Diana (2005.02.11 – 2008.07.03)

Auxiliary Bishop of Québec (Canada) (2005.02.11 – 2008.07.03)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada) (2008.07.03 – 2015.01.10)

Archbishop Bertrand Blanchet
(1992.10.16 – 2008.07.03)

(no coat-of-arms or motto)

Born:	1932.09.19 (Saint-Thomas-de-Montmagny, QC, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1956.05.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1973.12.08
Died:	2025.10.23 (La Pocatière, QC, Canada † 93)

Priest of Chicoutimi (Canada) (1956.05.20 – 1973.10.21)

Bishop of Gaspé (Canada) (1973.10.21 – 1992.10.16)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada) (1992.10.16 – 2008.07.03)

Archbishop Gilles Joseph Napoléon Ouellet, P.M.E.
(1973.04.27 – 1992.10.16)

Born:	1922.08.14 (Bromptonville, QC, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1946.06.30
Consecrated Bishop:	1968.11.23
Died:	2009.08.13 (Rimouski, QC, Canada † 86)

Superior General of Society of Foreign Missions (1958.02.19 – 1967.09.19)

Bishop of Gaspé (Canada) (1968.10.05 – 1973.04.27)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada) (1973.04.27 – 1992.10.16)

President of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (1977 – 1979)

Archbishop Louis Lévesque
(1967.02.25 – 1973.04.27)

In libro vitæ

Born:	1908.05.27 (Amqui, QC, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1932.06.26
Consecrated Bishop:	1952.08.15
Died:	1998.03.12 (Rimouski, QC, Canada † 89)

Priest of Rimouski (Canada) (1932.06.26 – 1952.06.09)

Bishop of Hearst (Canada) (1952.06.09 – 1964.04.13)

Titular Archbishop of Egnatia (1964.04.13 – 1967.02.25)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada) (1964.04.13 – 1967.02.25)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada) (1967.02.25 – 1973.04.27)

Archbishop Charles-Eugène Parent
(1951.03.02 – 1967.02.25)

Ut sint unum

Born:	1902.04.22 (Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, QC, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1925.03.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1944.05.24
Died:	1982.06.02 († 80)

Priest of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Canada) (1925.03.07 – 1944.03.11)

Titular Bishop of Diana (1944.03.11 – 1951.03.02)

Auxiliary Bishop of Rimouski (Canada) (1944.03.11 – 1951.03.02)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada) (1951.03.02 – 1967.02.25)

Titular Archbishop of Vassinassa (1967.02.25 – 1970.11.26)

Archbishop Joseph-Georges-Alexandre Courchesne
(1946.02.09 – 1950.11.14)

Christus dilexit nos

Born:	1880.09.13 (Saint-Thomas-de-Pierreville, QC, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1904.07.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1928.05.24
Died:	1950.11.14 (Rimouski, QC, Canada † 70)

Priest of Nicolet (Canada) (1904.07.10 – 1928.02.01)

Bishop of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Canada) (1928.02.01 – 1946.02.09)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Rimouski (Canada) (1946.02.09 – 1950.11.14)

Bishops of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Roman Rite)

Bishop Joseph-Georges-Alexandre Courchesne (later Archbishop)
(1928.02.01 – 1946.02.09)

(see above)

Bishop Joseph-Romuald Léonard
(1919.12.18 – 1926.11.09)

In cruce salus

Born:	1876.08.19 (Saint-Joseph de Carleton, QC, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1899.02.25
Consecrated Bishop:	1920.02.25
Died:	1931.02.09 († 54)

Priest of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Canada) (1899.02.25 – 1919.12.18)

Bishop of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Canada) (1919.12.18 – 1926.11.09)

Titular Bishop of Agathopolis (1926.11.09 – 1931.02.09)

Bishop André-Albert Blais
(1891.02.06 – 1919.01.23)

Ponit animam pro ovibus

Born:	1842.08.26 (Saint-Vallier-de-Bellechasse, QC, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1868.06.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1890.05.18
Died:	1919.01.23 (Rimouski, QC, Canada † 76)

Priest of Québec (Canada) (1868.06.06 – 1889.12.28)

Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis (1889.12.28 – 1891.02.06)

Coadjutor Bishop of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Canada) (1889.12.28 – 1891.02.06)

Bishop of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Canada) (1891.02.06 – 1919.01.23)

Bishop Jean-Pierre-François Laforce-Langevin (later Archbishop)
(1867.01.15 – 1891.02.06)

Born:	1821.09.22 (Québec, QC, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1844.09.12
Consecrated Bishop:	1867.05.01
Died:	1892.01.26 († 70)

Priest of Québec (Canada) (1844.09.12 – 1867.01.15)

Bishop of Saint-Germain de Rimouski (Canada) (1867.01.15 – 1891.02.06)

Titular Archbishop of Leontopolis in Bithynia (1891.02.06 – 1892.01.26)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Archbishop: Archbishop Louis Lévesque (1964.04.13 – 1967.02.25)
Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop André-Albert Blais (1889.12.28 – 1891.02.06)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Charles-Eugène Parent (later Archbishop) (1944.03.11 – 1951.03.02)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Saint-Germain, Rimouski, Québec
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)
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Churches by City (111)

Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (↙), Chicoutimi (←), Baie-Comeau (↑), Gaspé (↗), Bathurst (→), Edmundston (↓), Portland in Maine (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 20,225 km²

Population: 138,460 Catholics (95.9% of 144,432 total)

Pastoral Centres: 95 parishes, 15 missions

Personnel: 49 priests (48 diocesan, 1 religious), 13 deacons, 321 religious (4 brothers, 317 sisters), 1 seminarian