{"id":6881,"date":"2022-03-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/bishop-appointed-diocese-trois-rivieres\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:00:00","slug":"bishop-appointed-diocese-trois-rivieres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/bishop-appointed-diocese-trois-rivieres\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Appointed for the Diocese of Trois-Rivi\u00e8res"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccb.ca\/announcement\/bishop-appointed-for-the-diocese-of-trois-rivieres\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>At the time of his appointment, Bishop Lalibert\u00e9 was serving as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Qu\u00e9bec. Bishop Lalibert\u00e9 will assume the pastoral governance of the Diocese currently under the care of the Most Rev. Pierre-Olivier Tremblay, O.M.I., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, who has been servingas its Diocesan Administrator since January 2021, following the resignation of Bishop Luc Bouchard.<\/p>\n\n<p>Bishop Lalibert\u00e9 was born in Charlesbourg, Qu\u00e9bec on 13 December 1964. He obtained a Bachelor of Theology and a diploma in Education from the University of Laval in 1987. He worked as a lay missionary for two years in Haiti prior to joining the&nbsp;<em>Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Missions \u00c9trang\u00e8res du Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>&nbsp;(Qu\u00e9bec Foreign Mission Society) in 1990 as a youth missionary animator for the province of Qu\u00e9bec. He then pursued additional studies and obtained a Master\u2019s degree in Missiology from the University of Saint Paul. He was ordained to the priesthood on 28 October 1995 and, from 1996 until 2004, his pastoral ministry focused on missionary work in the Amazon region of Brazil. Upon his return to Canada in 2004, he &nbsp;served as Director of the&nbsp;<em>Centre international de formation missionnaire<\/em>&nbsp;(CIFM) of the&nbsp;<em>Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Missions \u00c9trang\u00e8res<\/em>. In 2008, he became a member of the Central Council of the SM\u00c9 as Vicar General. He was first elected Superior General in 2013 and was re-elected for a second mandate in 2018.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Diocese of Trois-Rivi\u00e8res has 14 parishes served by 58 diocesan priests and 31 permanent deacons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source At the time of his appointment, Bishop Lalibert\u00e9 was serving as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Qu\u00e9bec. Bishop&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6881","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\/6881","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=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}