Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière
The Most Reverend Pierre Goudreault Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops The Most Reverend Pierre Goudreault, Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, became the 41 st President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops at the September 2025 meeting of the Plenary Assembly. Elected by the Plenary Assembly of Bishops for a two-year term (2025-2027), he succeeds the Most Rev. William McGrattan, Bishop of Calgary, whose two-year term ended in September 2025. He was born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, on 27 May 1963, the elder of two children of Suzanne Miljours and Denis Goudreault. In 1984, he obtained a certificate in administration from the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT). That year, he entered Saint Paul University Seminary in Ottawa, and was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Rouyn-Noranda on 18 May 1991. Bishop Goudreault obtained a doctoral degree in theology from Saint Paul University in 1998. At the beginning of his priestly ministry, he was vicar for the Saint-Martin-de-Tours Parish in Malartic (1991-1994). During advanced studies, he was a member of the formation team of the Saint Paul University Seminary (1994 -1996). He then became the pastor of four parishes of the Notre-Dame-de-l’Entente pastoral division (1997-2002), then priest-moderator of Sainte-Trinité Parish in downtown Rouyn-Noranda (2002-2017), pastor Sainte-Famille Parish in Arntfield (2011-2013) and of Blessed Sacrament Parish (2013-2017).