Diocese of Trois-Rivières

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Trois-Rivières (Latin: Dioecesis Trifluvianensis in Canada) (erected 8 June 1852) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Québec.

History

The Diocese of Trois-Rivières was erected from the Archdiocese of Quebec on June 8, 1852. Rev. Thomas Cooke was appointed the first bishop. At that time, the diocese extended to the Eastern Townships, and included thirty-nine parishes.^[1]

The Collège des Trois-Rivières was founded in 1860; in 1874, it became the diocesan seminary. Also in 1874, the Diocese of Sherbrooke was created from Trois-Rivières. Notre-Dame-du-Cap was designated a national pilgrimage site by the bishops of Canada in 1909.^[2]

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Thomas Cooke (1852 – 1870)
• Louis-François Richer dit Laflèche (1870 – 1898)
• François-Xavier Cloutier (1899 – 1934)
• Alfred-Odilon Comtois (1934 – 1945)
• Maurice Roy (1946 – 1947), appointed Archbishop of Québec
• Georges-Léon Pelletier (1947 – 1975)
• Laurent Noël (1975 – 1996)
• Martin Veillette (1996 – 2012)^[3]
• Luc-André Bouchard (2012 – 2021)
• Martin Laliberté, P.M.E. (2022 – 2026), appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Saint-Jean–Longueuil

Coadjutor bishop

• Louis-François Richer dit Laflèche (1866-1870)

Auxiliary bishops

• Pierre Olivier Tremblay, O.M.I. (2018- )^[4]

Other priests of this diocese who became bishop

• Jean-Guy Hamelin, appointed Bishop of Rouyn-Noranda, Québec

Territorial losses