Joseph Aurele Plourde

Former auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alexandria (now Alexandria-Cornwall), Ontario

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Joseph Aurele Plourde

12 January 1915

St. Francois de Madarvaska, N.B. (Diocese of Edmunston, New Brunswick)

 

 

 

 

 

 

07 May 1944

Diocese of Edmunston, N.B.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26 August 1964: consecrated bishop at Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Edmunston as auxiliary bishop to Bishop Brodeur, Diocese of Alexandria, Ontario

 

12 January 1967: appointed Archbishop of Archdiocese of Ottawa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pastor at Sacre Coeur, Alexandria while serving as Auxiliary Bishop

 

Spent two years (1964-66) in the Diocese of Alexandria as auxiliary bishop

  

Due to Bishop Brodeur's ill health administered the Diocese of Alexandria from Ottawa until June 1967 when Bishop Brodeur's successor, Bishop Adolphe Proulx was installed   

1967-1969:  Vice-President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB)

1969-1971: President CCCB

Knight of Malta  

Knight of the Holy Sepulchre

One of “The Gang of Five” an influential group of five bishops who were close friends and annually met on Labour day weekends at each other’s cottages.  The group comprised of Bishops Plourde, Philip Pocock, George Flahiff and brothers Emmett and Alexander Carter,

1989: retired.  Still resides in Ottawa, Ontario