Roman Catholic Diocese of Chicoutimi

Catholic ecclesiastical territory

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Diocese of Chicoutimi Dioecesis Chicoutimiensis

Coat of Arms
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
Website
evechedechicoutimi.qc.ca

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]

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

^ Diocese of Chicoutimi - catholic-hierarchy.org
^ Chicoutimi - Catholic Encyclopedia article
^ Official Web site
^ David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, Rene Guay; retrieved: 2017-11-19. ^{[self-published source]}