The Diocese of Amos (French: Diocèse d'Amos, Latin: Dioecesis Amosensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church that covers part of the Province of Quebec. The diocese was erected by Pope Pius XI on December 3, 1938. Joseph-Aldée Desmarais was named its first bishop on June 20, 1939 by Pope Pius XII. It has a total area of 127,237 square miles (329,540 km2) and a total population of 115,000.[1]
Diocese of Amos Dioecesis Amosensis Diocèse d'Amos | |
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 Coat of Arms | |
| Location | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Ecclesiastical province | Gatineau |
| Statistics | |
| Population - Catholics | 89,000 (79.7%) |
| Parishes | 58 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | December 3, 1938 |
| Cathedral | Cathédrale Ste-Thérese d'Avila |
| Patron saint | Teresa of Avila |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Joseph Ferdinand Guy Boulanger |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Paul-André Durocher |
| Bishops emeritus | Gilles Lemay Eugène Tremblay |
| Map | |
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| Website | |
| diocese-amos.org | |
The diocese was headed by Gilles Lemay, formerly an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Quebec, until his resignation on September 16, 2023, upon reaching the mandatory retirement age for bishops of 75.[1] The Diocese of Amos is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Gatineau.
The diocese has 35 priests, 47 Religious Sisters,[2] and 91,600 Catholics (2012).[1]
Bishops
editDiocesan bishops
edit- Joseph-Aldée Desmarais (1939 – 1968)
- Albert Sanschagrin (auxiliary bishop, 1957 – 1967)
- Gaston Hains (coadjutor, 1967 – 1968) (1968 – 1978)
- Gérard Drainville (1978 – 2004)
- Eugène Tremblay (2004 – 2011)
- Gilles Lemay (2011 – 2023)
- Joseph Ferdinand Guy Boulanger (2023 – present)
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
edit- Roger Ébacher, appointed Bishop of Hauterive, Québec in 1979
- Marc Ouellet, appointed titular archbishop in 2001; later Cardinal Archbishop of Quebec
References
edit- ^ a b c "Diocese of Amos". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
- ^ "Communautés et Instituts de femmes". Diocèse d'Amos (in French). Archived from the original on August 13, 2015.