Bishop of Valleyfield
Bishop Alain Faubert was born on 4 April 1965 in Montréal. He carried out his secondary studies at the Collège Laval in Laval and at the Collège Marie-Victorin in Montréal. He entered the major seminary of Montréal, and attended university courses in philosophy and theology. He was ordained a priest for the archdiocese of Montréal on 9 June 1995. After ordination, he first served as parish vicar of Saint-Urbain, Sainte-Dorothée (1995-2000) and Saint-Germain (2011), adjunct of the diocesan Office for Education (2004-2008), and deputy moderator of the Curia (2007-2010). He was awarded a doctorate from the Université Laval in 2010, and went on to serve as episcopal vicar for the East Region of the archdiocese of Montréal (2011-2012), and teacher of ecclesiology at the major seminary of Montréal. He was appointed titular bishop of Vicus Pacati and auxiliary of Montréal on 19 April 2016, and received episcopal consecration the following 15 June.