Bishop René Guay

Rev. René Guay was born on 4 September 1950 in Saint-Thomas-Didyme, Québec, in the diocese of Chicoutimi. From 1963 to 1968 he attended the major seminary of Chicoutimi and continued his secondary studies at the Cégep in the same city. In 1970 he entered the major seminary of Chicoutimi and obtained a diploma in theology. From 1973 to 1975, in the Faculty of Theology of Laval University he obtained a degree in theology. He was ordained a priest on 13 July 1975 for the diocese of Chicoutimi. In 1979, as an associate of the Societé des Missions Etrangères, he began his activity as a missionary in Chile, where he remained until 1992, the year in which he definitively re-entered his original diocese. In Chile he was parish priest and also dean of the archdiocese of Santiago, and subsequently parish priest in the diocese of San Bernardo. He returned to Canada where he attended an intensive course in formation for spiritual guides with the Jesuits of Villa Manrèse, Ste-Foy. From 1993 to 2004 he was spiritual director of the major seminary of Chicoutimi. In the years 1999 to 2015 he was Chaplain of the Detention Centre of Chicoutimi and from 2015 to the present, animator of detention centres in Québec.