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Joseph Guy, O.M.I., was born July 28, 1883 in Montreal. After
completing his studies at the University of Ottawa, he entered the Oblate
novitiate and was ordained as a priest in 1906.
He served as professor in the Oblate Juniorate, ministered in the Keewatin
district, and returned to Ottawa in 1920 as professor and representative
of the Oblate bishops to the Canadian government.
Appointed Rector of College Mathieu in Gravelbourg in 1927, he was still
at this post when named titular bishop of Zerta and Vicar Apostolic of
Grouard, Alberta on December 19, 1929.
Consecrated in Ottawa on May 1, 1930, he served the Grouard vicariate for
seven years before his appointment as Bishop of Gravelbourg on June 2,
1937. Due to commitments in the vicariate, the new bishop was
installed only on October 25.
His episcopate saw the end of the Great Depression and drought years, and
the beginning of a world war.
Ill health forced him to submit his resignation, which was accepted early
in December, 1942.
He returned to Montreal to take on the
procuratorship of the Oblate missions in Canada.
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