{"id":6293,"date":"2019-10-16T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/aecq-has-new-president-bishop-christian-rodembourg\/"},"modified":"2019-10-16T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T14:56:20","slug":"aecq-has-new-president-bishop-christian-rodembourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/aecq-has-new-president-bishop-christian-rodembourg\/","title":{"rendered":"The A\u00c9CQ has a new president: Bishop Christian Rodembourg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsjl.org\/fr\/news-item\/mgr-christian-rodembourg-nouveau-president-de-l-assemblee-des-eveques-du-quebec?utm_source=Cyberimpact&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Infolettre-La-Vie-dans-notre-Eglise-Express-du-3-octobre-2019\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAt the end of the Plenary Assembly held at the Madone in Cap-de-la-Madeleine from September 17\u201320, the Most Rev. Christian Rodembourg, Bishop of the Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe, was elected president of the Assembly of Quebec Catholic Bishops for a first two-year mandate. He succeeds Bishop No\u00ebl Simard who had been elected in September 2017.<\/p>\n\n<p>Bishop Rodembourg said this election took him by surprise, but that he receives this mandate humbly and in the spirit of service. \u201cI am profoundly touched by the confidence and the recognition shown by my fellow bishops in Quebec,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n<p>Bishop Rodembourg knows the joys and hardships of the Church in Quebec well. He says he is \u201cready to take over from his predecessors to address together the challenges we are currently facing as missionary disciples in a Church going forth.\u201d He entrusts his faith to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Blessed Louis-Z\u00e9phirin Moreau.\u201d (Luc Benoit, Communication Officer, Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe).<\/p>\n\n<p>Bishop Christian Rodembourg is a member of the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles.<br \/>\nHe became Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe on September 17, 2017.<br \/>\nHe was pastor of the Unit\u00e9 pastorale in Old Longueuil from 2013 to 2017<br \/>\nand of the Unit\u00e9 pastorale of the Est de la Montagne from 2002 to 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source At the end of the Plenary Assembly held at the Madone in Cap-de-la-Madeleine from September 17\u201320, the Most Rev.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}