Most Rev. J. Vernon Fougere
Lieu de naissance : Petit de Grat
Lieu de décès : Charlottetown, Ile du Prince-Édouard, Canada
Date de décès : 18 juin 2013
Most Rev. Vernon Fougere, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Charlottetown, died on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown, at the age of 70 years.
Born in Petit de Grat, N.S., he was the son of Godfrey and Anita (Goyetche) Fougere.
A graduate of St. Francis Xavier University and the University of Montreal, he was ordained to the priesthood by Most Rev. William E. Power for the Diocese of Antigonish on May 31, 1969, in Sydney, N.S. After ordination he served as associate pastor in Mount Carmel parish, New Waterford; pastor of St. Louis parish, Louisdale; Honduras, Central America; administrator of St. Joseph’s parish, North Sydney; pastor of St. Joseph’s parish, Bras d’Or, and St. Augustine parish, Sydney.
In 1975, he studied Spanish at the Cuernavaca Language School in Mexico before going to the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa in Honduras. He was fluent in French, English and Spanish. He was named vicar general and director of pastoral services in 1988. On Dec. 11, 1991, Pope John Paul II named him the 12th bishop of the Diocese of Charlottetown. He was consecrated and installed on March 19, 1992, in Saint Dunstan’s Basilica. He retired in 2009 after a long illness.
He was the second youngest of five children including Alex (Lucille Aucoin), Shirley (Eldon) George, Leona (Amos) David and Robert (Anne Boudreau).
Resting at Belvedere Funeral Home for visitation Thursday, 2-5 p.m., then transferred to St. Dunstan’s Basilica, Charlottetown, for visitation Thursday 7-9 p.m. and Friday 12 noon-1:15 p.m. Funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Dunstan’s Basilica on Friday at 1:30 p.m. Private interment in the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Charlottetown, at a later hour.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the P.E.I. Lung Association or St. Dunstan’s Basilica Restoration Fund.
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