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Episcopal Resignation and Appointment for the Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil (Ottawa) –  His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of the Most Reverend Claude Hamelin, Bishop of Saint-Jean-Longueuil, and appointed the Most Reverend Martin Laliberté, P.M.É. as Bishop of the Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil . At the time of his appointment, Bishop Laliberté was Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil. Bishop Laliberté Bishop Laliberté was born in Charlesbourg, Québec on 13 December 1964. He obtained a Bachelor of Theology and a diploma in Education from the University of Laval in 1987. He worked as a lay missionary in Haiti for two years before joining the Société des Missions Étrangères du Québec (Québec Foreign Mission Society) in 1990 as a youth missionary animator for the province of Québec. He then pursued additional studies and obtained a Master’s degree in Missiology from the University of Saint Paul. He was ordained to the priesthood on 28 October...