William J Smith

Former Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario, was formerly a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall

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William J Smith

 

June 1927  ordained in Greenfield, Ontario (Diocese of Alexandria)

 

Secretary to Bishop Couture and assisting at St. Finnan’s Cathedral, Alexandria.

 

1940: Rector St. Finnan’s Cathedral, Alexandria.

 

1944: assigned to St. Columban’s, Cornwall to restore the church after the September ’44 earthquake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25 July 1945: consecrated as Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario (at St. Finnan’s Cathedral, Alexandria)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 1971: retired.