Archbishop Bertrand Blanchet †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Rimouski, Québec, Canada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Sep 1932		Born
20 May 1956	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada
22 Oct 1973	41.0	Appointed	Bishop of Gaspé, Québec, Canada
8 Dec 1973	41.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gaspé, Québec, Canada
16 Oct 1992	60.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Rimouski, Québec, Canada
2 Feb 1993	60.3	Installed	Archbishop of Rimouski, Québec, Canada
3 Jul 2008	75.7	Retired	Archbishop of Rimouski, Québec, Canada
23 Oct 2025	93.0	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Rimouski, Québec, Canada

MicroData Summary
Bertrand Blanchet
Archbishop Bertrand Blanchet
(born 19 Sep 1932, died 23 Oct 2025)
Archbishop Emeritus of Rimouski

Ad Limina - May 2006: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place St-Thomas-de-Montmagny, Diocese of Chicoutimi, Québec
Ordained Priest Church, St-Thomas-de-Montmagny, Diocese of Chicoutimi, Québec
Ordained Bishop Christ the King, Cathedral, Gaspé, Diocese of Gaspé, Québec
Death Place Notre-Dame-de-Fatima, Hospital, La Pocatière, Archdiocese of Rimouski, Québec

a priest for 69.4 years
a bishop for 51.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Marius Paré †
Titular Bishop of Aegae
Principal Consecrator:
Maurice Cardinal Roy †
Archbishop of Québec
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Louis Joseph Jean Marie Fortier †
Archbishop of Sherbrooke, Québec
Archbishop Joseph Gilles Napoléon Ouellet, P.M.E. †
Archbishop of Rimouski, Québec

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Maurice Cardinal Roy † (1946)
Archbishop of Québec
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, O.M.I. † (1930)
Archbishop of Québec
Archbishop Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes † (1913)
Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario
Archbishop Louis Joseph Napoléon Paul Bruchési † (1897)
Archbishop of Montréal, Québec
Archbishop Louis-Nazaire Bégin † (1888)
Titular Archbishop of Cyrene
Elzéar-Alexandre Cardinal Taschereau † (1871)
Archbishop of Québec
Archbishop John Joseph Lynch, C.M. † (1859)
Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario
Bishop Armand-Françios-Marie de Charbonnel, O.F.M. Cap. † (1850)
Bishop of Toronto, Ontario
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Raymond Dumais † (1994)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop André Gaumond † (1985)

Event	Place
Birth Place	St-Thomas-de-Montmagny, Diocese of Chicoutimi, Québec
Ordained Priest	Church, St-Thomas-de-Montmagny, Diocese of Chicoutimi, Québec
Ordained Bishop	Christ the King, Cathedral, Gaspé, Diocese of Gaspé, Québec
Death Place	Notre-Dame-de-Fatima, Hospital, La Pocatière, Archdiocese of Rimouski, Québec

External Link(s):

VIAF: 65366741
WikiData: Q828565

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 3 Jul 2008
c1/loc: CB, 14 Apr 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 22, Number 1,237
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 95, Deceased Cardinals (back)
b: Dictionnaire Biographique des Évèques Catholiques du Canada, Page 263, and Page 264
d: CB, 24 Oct 2025
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 267, Necrology (back)

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