Roman Catholic Diocese of Mont-Laurier

Diocese of Mont-Laurier
Cathedral Notre-Dame-de-Fourvière
Logo of the Diocese
Location
Country	Canada
Ecclesiastical province	Gatineau
Population - Catholics	82,000 (89.0%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Cathedral	Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-Fourvière
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Raymond Poisson
Metropolitan Archbishop	Paul-André Durocher
Bishops emeritus	Paul Lortie Vital Massé
Map
Website
dioceseml.com

The Diocese of Mont-Laurier (Latin: Dioecesis Montis Laurei) is a former Latin Church diocese that included part of the Province of Quebec. On 1 June 2022 the diocese was merged with the diocese of Saint-Jérôme, becoming the diocese Saint-Jérôme–Mont-Laurier. The diocese contains 51 parishes, 32 active diocesan priests, 7 religious priests, and 82,000 Catholics. It also has 66 Women Religious, and 15 Religious Brothers. The Vatican's website, as of 2011, gives an area of 19,968 (units not given); a total population of 95,256; a Catholic population of 77,340; 35 priests; 1 permanent deacon; and 58 religious.

After Bishop Lortie's retirement, this diocese came under an Apostolic Administrator, Most Rev. Paul-André Durocher, Archbishop of Gatineau, the metropolitan of the (ecclesiastical) province which includes this diocese. On June 1, 2020, Pope Francis appointed Raymond Poisson to serve as Bishop of Mont-Laurier, concurrently as Bishop of Saint-Jerome, in the form of “in persona episcopi” (Latin, means "in the persons of the bishop).^[1]

Diocesan bishops

The following is a list of the bishops of Mont-Laurier, including auxiliary bishops, and their terms of service:

• François-Xavier Brunet (1913-1922)
• Joseph-Eugène Limoges (1922-1965)
• Joseph Louis André Ouellette (1956-1978)
• Jean Gratton (1978-2001)
• Vital Massé (2001-2012)
• Paul Lortie (2012-2019)
• Raymond Poisson (2020–Present)

References

• Diocese of Mont-Laurier page at catholichierarchy.org retrieved July 14, 2006