Gérard Dionne
Gérard Dionne was a Canadian Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and the oldest Roman Catholic Bishop of Canada.Biography
Dionne was born in Saint-Basile, New Brunswick and ordained a priest in Edmundston on 1 May 1948. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario as well as Titular bishop of Garba on 29 January 1975 and consecrated on 8 April 1975. On 26 November 1983 he was appointed bishop of the Edmundston Diocese where he remained until his resignation on 20 October 1993.
In November 2009 a Canadian judge determined that Dionne thwarted a 1983 police investigation into child abuse allegations surrounding Father Bernard Cloutier. He turned 100 in June 2019.
