CCCB REPORT: His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, today, appointed the Most Reverend Noël Simard as Bishop of Valleyfield, Québec, succeeding the Most Reverend
Luc Cyr, who was appointed Archbishop of Sherbrooke on July 26, 2011.
Bishop Simard was born on November 25,
1947, in the
village of St-Aimé-des-Lacs, in the Charlevoix region of Québec, ordained to the Priesthood on May 28, 1972 and to the Episcopate on October 3, 2008, when he became Auxiliary Bishop of Sault Sainte-Marie. Until then, he had been a Professor of Moral Theology and Bioethics at
Saint Paul University in
Ottawa. Prior to that, he taught at l’Université Laval in Québec and on a part-time basis at the
University of Toronto in the field of Moral Theology. He is the current President of the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (an organization founded by the CCCB) and State Chaplain of the Knights of Columbus.
The Diocese of Valleyfield has a Catholic population of 199,390 and is served by 65 diocesan priests, 11 religious order priests and 17 permanent deacons. It has 25 parishes and missions.
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