Episcopal Resignation and Appointment for the Diocese of Baie-Comeau

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Episcopal Resignation and Appointment for the Diocese of Baie-Comeau

Today, His Holiness Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Most Reverend Jean-Pierre Blais, Bishop of Baie-Comeau, and has appointed as his successor the Reverend Father Pierre Charland, O.F.M., currently Minister Provincial of the Franciscan Province of the Holy Spirit in Canada. In accordance with the Code of Canon Law, a Diocesan Bishop who has completed the seventy-fifth year of age is requested to present his resignation from office t…

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It is the Franciscan Pierre Charland, 62 years old and currently provincial minister of the Franciscan province of the Holy Spirit in Canada, who succeeds Bishop Jean-Pierre Blais as bishop of the diocese of Baie-Comeau. Bishop Blais had resigned to Pope Francis in the spring of 2024 before celebrating his 75th birthday, the age at which the bishops are obliged to retire, according to canon law. The pope therefore accepted the resignation of the…

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It is the Franciscan Pierre Charland, 62 years old and currently provincial minister of the Franciscan province of the Holy Spirit in Canada, who succeeds Bishop Jean-Pierre Blais as bishop of the diocese of Baie-Comeau. Bishop Blais had resigned to Pope Francis in the spring of 2024 before celebrating his 75th birthday, the age at which the bishops are obliged to retire, according to canon law. The pope therefore accepted the resignation of the…

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It is the Franciscan Pierre Charland, 62 years old and currently provincial minister of the Franciscan province of the Holy Spirit in Canada, who succeeds Bishop Jean-Pierre Blais as bishop of the diocese of Baie-Comeau. Bishop Blais had resigned to Pope Francis in the spring of 2024 before celebrating his 75th birthday, the age at which the bishops are obliged to retire, according to canon law. The pope therefore accepted the resignation of the…

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The diocese of Baie-Comeau has a new bishop. It is the religious Pierre Charland, the current provincial minister of the Franciscans of Canada. In announcing this appointment this Tuesday, February 18, Pope Francis, still hospitalized, also accepted the resignation of Bishop Jean-Pierre Blais, appointed at Baie-Comeau in December 2008. According to the biographical notes offered by the Vatican Press Room, the new bishop of Baie-Comeau was born i…