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