Bishop Gilles Lemay

Bishop Emeritus of Amos, Québec, Canada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Feb 1948		Born
18 Jun 1972	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Québec, Canada
11 Feb 2005	56.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Québec, Canada
11 Feb 2005	56.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Eguga
10 Apr 2005	57.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Eguga
22 Feb 2011	62.9	Appointed	Bishop of Amos, Québec, Canada
15 Apr 2011	63.1	Installed	Bishop of Amos, Québec, Canada
25 Jun 2019	71.3	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada
21 Mar 2020	72.0	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada
16 Sep 2023	75.5	Retired	Bishop of Amos, Québec, Canada

MicroData Summary
Gilles Lemay
Bishop Gilles Lemay
(born 24 Feb 1948)
Bishop Emeritus of Amos

Ad Limina - May 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Sainte-Emmélie, Leclercville
Ordained Bishop Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Basilica, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Archdiocese of Québec

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Amos.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Laurent Noël †
Titular Bishop of Agathopolis
Principal Consecrator:
Marc Armand Cardinal Ouellet, P.S.S.
Archbishop of Québec
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jean-Pierre Blais
Titular Bishop of Tinum
Bishop Eugène Tremblay
Bishop of Amos, Québec

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Marc Armand Cardinal Ouellet, P.S.S. (2001)
Archbishop of Québec
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Paul Lortie (2009)
Gérald Cyprien Cardinal Lacroix, I.S.P.X. (2009)
Bishop Gaétan Proulx, O.S.M. (2012)
Archbishop Denis Grondin (2012)
Bishop Francisco Javier Pistilli Scorzara, P. Schönstatt (2014)
Bishop Guy Boulanger (2020)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q761707

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 179, Number 14,851
ab: Bollettino, 22 Feb 2011
ab: CB, 25 Jun 2019
r: Bollettino, 16 Sep 2023

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