Due to the declining Catholic population in the diocese, the last bishop,
Raymond Roussin, was entrusted with dissolving the diocese in 1995. On September 14, 1998 the diocese reverted to the
Archdiocese of Regina and the
Diocese of Saskatoon.[1]
Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson (1932.11.25 – 1936.12.16), later Metropolitan Archbishop of
Moncton (Canada) (1936.12.16 – 1941.10.23)
Joseph-Wilfrid Guy, O.M.I. (1937.06.02 – 1942.11.07), previously
Titular Bishop of
Photice (1929.12.19 – 1937.06.02) & Apostolic Vicar of
Grouard (Canada) (1929.12.19 – 1937.06.02); emeritate again as Titular Bishop of Photice (1942.11.07 – death 1951.12.08)
Marie-Joseph Lemieux (マリー・ジョゼフ・ルミュー) (1944.04.07 – 1953.06.29), previously Bishop of
Sendai 仙台 (Japan) (1935.12.03 – 1941.01.16), then Titular Bishop of
Calydon (1941.01.16 – 1944.04.07); later Metropolitan Archbishop of
Ottawa (Canada) (1953.06.29 – resigned 1966.09.24), then Titular Bishop of
Saldæ (1966.09.24 – death 1994.03.04) &
Apostolic Nuncio (papal ambassador) to Haiti (1966.09.24 – 1969), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to India (1969 – 1971)
Aimé Décosse (1953.11.03 – retired 1973.05.12)
Noël Delaquis,
Trappists (O.C.S.O.) (1973.12.03 – 1995.04.10); emeritate as first Titular Bishop of Gravelbourg (see below 1998.11.14 – present ...)
Raymond O. Roussin,
Marianists (S.M.) (1995.04.10 – 1998.09.14), later
Coadjutor Bishop of
Victoria (in Canada)) (1998.09.14 – 1999.03.18), succeeded as Bishop of Victoria (1999.03.18 – 2004.01.10), Metropolitan Archbishop of
Vancouver (Canada) (2004.01.10 – 2009.01.02)
Titular see
At the September 14, 1998 suppression of the residential see, the diocese was nominally transformed by creating the
Titular bishopric of Gravelbourg.
It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) class :
Noël Delaquis,
Trappists (O.C.S.O.) (1998.11.14 – ...), Bishop emeritus (penultimate) of Gravelbourg (see above 1973.12.03 –1995.04.10)