François-Xavier Brunet

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François-Xavier Brunet (27 November 1868 – 7 January 1922) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and bishop of Mont-Laurier, Québec.

Baptized in the parish of Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, he moved to Ottawa in 1873. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1890 from the College of Ottawa. He then decided to become a priest and studied theology at the Grand Séminaire d'Ottawa. He was ordained by Archbishop Joseph-Thomas Duhamel of Ottawa in 1893. In 1913, he was appointed the fist bishop of the new diocese of Mont-Laurier, which was created from parts of the Archdiocese of Montréal and the Archdiocese of Ottawa.

He died in Montreal in 1922.

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Religious titles
Preceded by
Diocese erected in 1913.		 Bishop of Mont-Laurier
1913–1922		 Succeeded by
Joseph-Eugène Limoges
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