Bishop-elect Albert to Prince Albert

The Holy Father has accepted the retirement of the Most Reverend Blaise-Ernest Morand as Bishop of the Diocese of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and has named as the new Bishop of Prince Albert Father Albert Thévenot, M. Afr., Canadian Provincial of the “White Fathers” (Missionaries of Africa).

Bishop-elect Thévenot was born in 1945 in Treherne, Manitoba and made his perpetual profession in the Congregation of the Missionaries of Africa in 1975. After completing his theological studies in Totteridge, England, he was ordained a priest August 2, 1980. He was then sent on mission in Tanzania where he served his first assignment as Parochial Vicar in Bushangaro for two years and then for another three years as assistant spiritual director for youth at the Student Centre in Tabora. He returned to work in Western Canada from 1985 to 1992 before going back to work in Tabora, first as Parochial Vicar and then as Pastor until 1996. From 1996 to 1998 he was Assistant Provincial for his congregation in Tanzania, Kenya, and Sudan. During the six following years, from 1998 to 2004, he was in Rome, as a member of his congregation’s General Council, with responsibilities for finances and for elderly religious. Returning to Canada again, he was named in 2005 National Secretary of the Pontifical Missionary Society. In May 2006 he was elected the Canadian Provincial of the “White Fathers.”