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Rev. William Bernard was born on Oct. 21, 1945 to Edward WIlliam Bernard and Teheresa Florence Brown. He made his religious profession on Aug. 2, 1965 to the Redemporisits and was ordained on May 28, 1971 in Edmonton.

Between 1975 and 1984 he ministered at Scala House in Edmonton. No additional information is available - see Chancery.

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Father Roland Pierre Bérubé was born in Beaumont, AB, on November 3, 1909. He did his theological studies at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Edmonton between 1929 and 1933 and he was ordained by Archbishop Joseph O’Leary on April 23, 1933.

From 1933-1934, he served as Assistant Pastor at Legal, and served 5 months in 1934 as Assistant Pastor at Chauvin. From 1934-1947, he served as Pastor at St. Lina, where he also started the first rural credit union in Alberta in 1936. From 1947-1949, he served as Pastor at Legal, where he also built the church and rectory in 1949 but the entire complex was destroyed by fire in June 1950. He then served as Administrator at Chauvin from 1949-1950. He was Chaplain at Fort Saskatchewan Jail from 1950-1968. Rev. Bérubé was the First Canadian priest to win the St. Dismas award, given as official recognition for his work among prison inmates; presented at a dinner in Philadelphia in November 1962. In 1952, he was appointed national secretary of the Canadian Catholic Chaplains of correctional institutes.

He was semi-retired in 1968 due to health reasons. But he served as Chaplain in Alberta National Parks during the summer, and as Chaplain in a Convalescent Home in Texas during the winter. Rev. Roland Bérubé retired in 1981 and died in Edmonton on November 29, 1990. He is interred at the Beaumont Cemetery.

In addition to his priestly duties, Rev. Bérubé was also a prolific writer and complied an important history of Edmonton’s priests in between 1818 and 1920.

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Gregory J. Bittman was born in Edmonton on March 5, 1961 to Joseph Bittman and Frances Lech. He attended St. Edmund School and St. Joseph High School before earning a diploma in nursing from the Misericordia Hospital School of Nursing and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Alberta. He worked as a nurse for several years before entering the seminary to study for the priesthood.

In 1991, he obtained a Master’s of Divinity Degree from Christ the King Seminary in Mission, B.C., and in 2009, he obtained a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Catholic University of America. He was ordained to the priesthood on August 15, 1996, at St. Joseph’s Basilica by Archbishop Joseph MacNeil.

He was Associate Pastor of Holy Family Parish in St. Albert and Administrator of Sacred Heart Parish, Gibbons (1996-97), then was appointed Pastor of Our Lady of the Prairies Parish in Daysland (1997-99), Christ-King Parish in Stettler (1999-2000), and the parishes of St. Agnes and St. Anthony, Edmonton (2000-01).

He was appointed Chancellor of the Archdiocese in 2000 and was named as Judicial Vicar in 2009. He was an ex officio member of the College of Consultors, the Presbyteral Council, the Clergy Personnel Committee, the Project Review Board and the Finance Committee in the Archdiocese of Edmonton. He has also served as Spiritual Director to seminarians over the last few years.

Reverend Bittman was appointed the first Auxiliary Bishop of Edmonton by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on July 14, 2012. He was ordained to the episcopate on September 3, 2012, the Feast of St. Gregory the Great, at St. Joseph's Basilica.

On February 6, 2018, His Holiness Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of the Diocese of Nelson in British Columbia. He was officially installed as its seventh bishop on April 25, 2018.

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Rev. Moise Blais, OMI, was born in Yamachiche, Quebec, on Jan. 6, 1853 to Joseph Blais and Lucie Gerin-Lajoie. He made his profession on May 23, 1876 at Lachine, Quebec, and entered the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He was ordained on May 3, 1883 at Hull by Archbishop Grandin of St. Albert, AB.

Rev. Blais served as a missionary throughout various parishes and missions, including: Lac Ste-Anne, Edmonton, Lamoreux, Fort Saskatchewan, and St. Catherine's Mission (1883-1885); Calgary, Kamloops, Pincher Creek, and Fort MacLeod (1886-1890); Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (1890-1894); Manitoba, residing in Kenora, Ontario (1894-1907); Duluth, Minnesota (1907-1909); and Manitoba (1910-1926).

He died on August 27, 1926 in St. Boniface, Manitoba, and is buried in the OMI plot in St. Boniface Cemetery.

Rev. Anthony Michael Blanch was born on June 20, 1927 in Ontario to William Blanch and Bernadette Armstrong. He attended St. Joseph Seminary in Edmonton between 1947 and 1953 and was ordained on June 7, 1953 at St. Peter's Cathedral in Muenster by Bishop Francis Klein of Saskatoon for ministry in the Archdiocese of Edmonton.

During his ministry he served at Sacred Heart Parish (1953), Onaway (1953-1967), Thorsby (1967-1970), Stettler (1970-1978), Lacombe (1986), Ponoka (1991-2007).

Between 1978 and 1978 He attended Notre Damn University in Indian and then in 1981 he moved to Toronto to work with the Scarboro Foreign Mission eventually serving in the West Indies for four years before returning to the Archdiocese of Edmonton in 1986.

Father Blanch retired in 2007 and died in Oct. of 2011.

The first priests to serve Wainwright and surrounding areas came from France at the request of Bishop Emile Legal, OMI. These priests belonged to the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. They arrived in Wainwright on July 27, 1910. There were only 15 Catholic families in the district at the time and mass was said in the Beaudry General Store. A house-chapel was built in November 1910 and regular services have been held in the area ever since.

On April 5, 1915 Archbishop Emile Legal, OMI declared Wainwright canonically erected as a parish, with St. Luke as titular patron saint. The parish included the missions of Irma, Kinsella, heath and Edgerton.

On June 16, 1932 Fr. Doyle left for the States to collect enough money to build a church so that the old church could be used as a school auditorium. Sod-turning for the church took place in Sunday, Aug.7 1932.

Archbishop H.J. O’Leary blessed the new church on Sunday, Sep. 25, 1932 dedicating it to the Blessed Sacrament.

Wainwright church dedicated to St. Luke was sold to Wainwright Medical Centre on Oct. 29, 1968.
Fr. Francis Stempfle was instrumental in the planning and building of the present church. The first sod was turned in April of 1968. Work commenced on April 22nd. On Sunday December 22, 1968, Archbishop Anthony Jordan, OMI blessed the new Blessed Sacrament Church.

Between 1910 and 1932 the parish in Wainwright was known as St. Luke. With the completion of the church in 1932 the name was changed to Blessed Sacrament.

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Rev. Lawrence Joseph Bonner was born in St. John, NB, on April 25, 1925 to Charles Bonner and Ann Dunn. He worked as a plumber before studying for the priesthood. He completed his theological studies at Holy Heart Seminary in Halifax in 1951-1953; and at St. Joseph's Seminary in Edmonton in 1953-1956. He was ordained on Sept. 22, 1956 at St. John, NB, for the Edmonton Diocese by Bishop Alfred B. Leverman.

Rev. Bonner served in the Edmonton Archdiocese including: Assistant Pastor in Castor (1956-1957); Assistant Pastor at Sacred Heart Parish (1957-1959); Assistant Pastor at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Edmonton (1959-1960); Assistant Pastor at St. Anthony's Parish in Edmonton (1961-1970); and Pastor at Assumption Parish in Edmonton (1969-1971). In addition to priestly duties, Rev. Bonner was also the driving force behind the Knights of Columbus minor hockey program for approximately 150 teams with 2,300 boys in total. He was also the President of the Alberta Pastoral Care Association, which he helped to establish.

Rev. Bonner died in Calgary on Jan. 15, 1971 of a heart attack. His funeral service was held on Jan. 20, 1971 at St. Joseph's Cathedral in Edmonton. He is interred in St. John, NB.

Rev. Francois Eugene Bonny was born in New York City in 1875 (exact date is unknown). He entered the Order of the White Fathers in Africa and was ordained to the Priesthood on June 29, 1904 in Carthage, Africa. After his ordination he ministered for three years in the Lake Victoria area where he contracted Malaria and Black Fevour. In 1907 he came to Canada for "health reasons" and served at Moose Lake and Bonnyville (now in the Diocese of St. Paul). In 1913 he was transferred to the Diocese of Regina were he served until 1926. No additional information is known about his life.