Gérard Tremblay,
P.S.S. (October 27, 1918 – September 28, 2019) was a Canadian bishop of the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
Tremblay was born in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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, Canada, and ordained a priest on June 16, 1946, for the
Society of Saint-Sulpice
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. He was appointed
auxiliary bishop
An auxiliary bishop is a bishop assigned to assist the diocesan bishop in meeting the pastoral and administrative needs of the diocese. Auxiliary bishops can also be titular bishops of sees that no longer exist as territorial jurisdictions.
...
of the
Archdiocese of Montreal
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and titular bishop of Trisipa on March 20, 1981, and consecrated on May 22, 1981. Tremblay retired as auxiliary bishop of Montreal on August 27, 1991. He
turned 100
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in October 2018.
References
External links
Catholic-HierarchyDiocese site
1918 births
2019 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada
Canadian men centenarians
Clergy from Montreal
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