Coat of arms of Gregory Bittman Gregory Bittman is a prelate of the

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and bishop of Nelson, British Columbia. Gregory Bittman received the priestly ordination on 15 August 1996. On July 14, 2012, an official news release from

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(VIS), an arm of the Holy See Press Office, stated that

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had appointed Father Gregory Bittman who, until then had been serving as the

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and as archdiocesan

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, as an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton and

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. On February 6, 2018, Pope Francis appointed him the seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Nelson in southeastern British Columbia. He took possession of the Diocese on April 25, 2018.

References

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