Bishop Jean-Pierre Blais

Bishop Emeritus of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 May 1949		Born
11 May 1974	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Québec, Canada
3 Nov 1994	45.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Québec, Canada
3 Nov 1994	45.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tinum
6 Jan 1995	45.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tinum
12 Dec 2008	59.5	Appointed	Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada
11 Mar 2009	59.8	Installed	Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada
18 Feb 2025	75.7	Retired	Bishop of Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada

MicroData Summary
Jean-Pierre Blais
Bishop Jean-Pierre Blais
(born 21 May 1949)
Bishop Emeritus of Baie-Comeau

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

Event Place
Birth Place Saint-Anselme-de-Bellechasse, Archdiocese of Québec
Ordained Bishop Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Basilica, Québec, Archdiocese of Québec

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Baie-Comeau.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Laurent Noël †
Titular Bishop of Agathopolis
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Maurice Couture, R.S.V. †
Archbishop of Québec
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jean-Paul Labrie †
Titular Bishop of Urci
Bishop Marc Leclerc †
Titular Bishop of Eguga

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Maurice Couture, R.S.V. † (1982)
Archbishop of Québec
Archbishop Louis-Albert Vachon † (1977)
Archbishop of Québec
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Pierre-André Fournier † (2005)
Bishop Gilles Lemay (2005)
Bishop Pierre Charland, O.F.M. (2025)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Saint-Anselme-de-Bellechasse, Archdiocese of Québec
Ordained Bishop	Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Basilica, Québec, Archdiocese of Québec

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1439854

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 12 Dec 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140, Number 12,467
b: Dictionnaire Biographique des Évèques Catholiques du Canada, Page 258
r: Bollettino, 18 Feb 2025

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