Raúl Corriveau
Raúl Corriveau, was a Canadian Roman Catholic prelate who was Bishop of Choluteca in Honduras from 1984 to 2005.
Raúl Corriveau was born in Notre-Dame-Auxiliatrice-de-Buckland, Quebec, on June 27, 1930. He joined the Society of Foreign Missions of Quebec. He was ordained a priest on July 1, 1956.
he was serving as vicar general of the Diocese of Les Cayes in Haiti, when he was named coadjutor bishop with right of succession by Pope John Paul II on August 25, 1980.
Corriveau was ordained to the episcopate by the Salesian Archbishop of Tegucigalpa,, on December 8, 1980. The co-consecrators were Marcel [Gérin y Boulay], Bishop of Choluteca, and Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, then an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa.
He replaced Gérin y Boulays as Bishop of Choluteca on April 14, 1984, in Honduras, following Boulays' retirement.
In 1997, he served as a member of the Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops in the [Catholic Church|Synod of Bishops].
His resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI on December 17, 2005, having reached the ordinary retirement age of 75. He remained in Honduras until 2021, when he returned to Canada. Corriveau died in Montreal on December 30, 2025, at the age of 95.