Diocese of Amos
The Diocese of Amos is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church that covers part of the Province of Quebec. The diocese was erected by Pope Pius XI on December 3, 1938. Joseph-Aldée Desmarais was named its first bishop on June 20, 1939 by Pope Pius XII. It has a total area of and a total population of 115,000.
The diocese was headed by Gilles Lemay, formerly an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Quebec, until his resignation on September 16, 2023, upon reaching the mandatory retirement age for bishops of 75. The Diocese of Amos is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Gatineau.
The diocese has 35 priests, 47 Religious Sisters, and 91,600 Catholics.
Bishops
Diocesan bishops
- Joseph-Aldée Desmarais
- Albert Sanschagrin
- Gaston Hains
- Gérard Drainville
- Eugène Tremblay
- Gilles Lemay
- Joseph Ferdinand Guy Boulanger
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Roger Ébacher, appointed Bishop of Hauterive, Québec in 1979
- Marc Ouellet, appointed titular archbishop in 2001; later Cardinal Archbishop of Quebec