Raymond Roussin

Alma materSt. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas
University of Manitoba
St. Louis University
University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandMottoFortes in Fide
(English: Steadfast in Faith)Coat of arms

Ordination history of Raymond Roussin
History Priestly ordination Date March 21, 1970 Place Fribourg, Switzerland Episcopal consecration Principal consecrator Noël Delaquis Co-consecrators Antoine Hacault Paul Vollmar Date June 14, 1995 Place Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Episcopal succession Bishops consecrated by Raymond Roussin as principal consecrator Richard Gagnon July 20, 2004 Gary Gordon March 22, 2006
Source(s):[1]

Styles of Raymond Roussin
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Your Excellency

Raymond O. Roussin SM was the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver from 2004 to January 2009, when his resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI.

Curriculum vitae

Born, Raymond Roussin, on June 17, 1939, in St. Vital, Winnipeg, Canada.

Ordination

Raymond Roussin entered the religious institute of the Society of Mary in 1961 in St. Louis, Missouri and was ordained as a priest in 1970.

Consecration

In 1995, Raymond Roussin was appointed Bishop of Gravelbourg and in 1999, Bishop of Victoria. Raymond Roussin was appointed Archbishop of Vancouver on January 10, 2004. His request for early retirement (for reasons of health since he had been suffering from depression) was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI on January 2, 2009.

He was open with his depression long before his resignation which is unusual for bishops and other high churchmen. Psychologists lauded his coming forward as heroic.^[2]

Legacy

Due to the declining Catholic population in the Diocese of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Raymond Roussin was entrusted with dissolving the Diocese in 1995. On September 14, 1998, the Diocese reverted to the Archdiocese of Regina and the Diocese of Saskatoon.^[3]

In 1998, Raymond Roussin became Bishop of Victoria, British Columbia. Because earlier questionable investments left the Diocese of Victoria in financial trouble, Raymond Roussin reorganized its finances by selling off unused property and brought the situation under control.^[3]

In February 2007, Archbishop Raymond Roussin called for pornography-free mobile service.^[4] The call was for Catholics & non-Catholics to divest from Telus Mobility and to write to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to stop downloading of pornography onto cell phones. Roussin's call, whose story drew the attention of The New York Times and Bloomberg News, was key to Telus dropping its adult content offerings.^[5]

On July 7, 2008, James Wingle, Bishop of St. Catharines and Raymond Roussin, Archbishop of Vancouver, spoke out strongly against the decision to grant Dr. Henry Morgentaler the Order of Canada, and called for this award to be revoked.^[6]

On September 5, 2008, Raymond Roussin, asked for support of Bill C-484, which would help protect the unborn as victims of crime. Presently, if a pregnant woman is attacked, and her unborn child is killed, the attacker is not charged with the murder of the child.^[7]

On January 2, 2009, he was succeeded by J. Michael Miller.

On April 24, 2015, he died in Winnipeg.

Other positions

• member of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB)
• member of the Episcopal Commission for Christian Education (French Sector)
• member of Episcopal Commission for Liturgy (English Sector)

References

External links

• Archdiocese of Vancouver
• St. Mary's University
• Archdiocese of Vancouver former bishops

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Noël Delaquis	Bishop of Gravelbourg 1995–1998	Diocese dissolved
Preceded by Remi De Roo	Bishop of Victoria 1998–2004	Succeeded by Richard Gagnon
Preceded by Adam Exner	Archbishop of Vancouver 2004–2009	Succeeded by J. Michael Miller