Diocese of Gravelbourg
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gravelbourg was a Latin suffragan of the Archdiocese of Regina and presently a Latin Catholic titular see. It was headquartered at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan.
Due to the declining Catholic population in the diocese, the last bishop, Raymond Roussin, was entrusted with dissolving the diocese in 1995. On September 14, 1998 the diocese reverted to the Archdiocese of Regina and the Diocese of Saskatoon.
History
- Established on January 31, 1930 as the Diocese of Gravelbourg, on territory split off from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina.
- Suppressed as residential diocese on September 14, 1998, its territory being divided and reassigned to mother Archdiocese of Regina and Diocese of Saskatoon.
Residential ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Gravelbourg- Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, later Metropolitan Archbishop of Québec, created Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria degli Angeli
- Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson, later Metropolitan Archbishop of Moncton
- Joseph-Wilfrid Guy, O.M.I., previously Titular Bishop of Photice & Apostolic Vicar of Grouard ; emeritate again as Titular Bishop of Photice
- Marie-Joseph Lemieux, previously Bishop of Sendai 仙台, then Titular Bishop of Calydon ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Ottawa, then Titular Bishop of Saldæ & Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to India
- Aimé Décosse
- Noël Delaquis, Trappists ; emeritate as first Titular Bishop of Gravelbourg
- Raymond O. Roussin, Marianists, succeeded as Bishop of Victoria, Metropolitan Archbishop of Vancouver
Titular see
At the September 14, 1998 suppression of the residential see, the diocese was nominally transformed by creating the Titular bishopric of Gravelbourg.It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest class :
- Noël Delaquis, Trappists, Bishop emeritus of Gravelbourg