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Bishop Gerard Paul Bergie was born on January 4, 1959 in Hamilton, Ontario. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 12, 1984 for the Diocese of Hamilton. He was named Auxiliary Bishop of Hamilton in July 2005 and ordained as a Bishop on August 24, 2005. He was named Bishop of the Diocese of St. Catharines on September 14, 2010 and installed on November 9, 2010.

He studied at St. Jerome’s College, the University of Waterloo and St. Peter’s Seminary, London, Ontario. He received a master’s degree in Divinity from the University of Western Ontario in 1983 and a licentiate in Canon Law from the University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome in 1991.

Bishop Bergie is President of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario (ACBO), Co-Treasurer of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) Executive Committee and a member of the CCCB Permanent Council. Bishop Bergie is currently a delegate for the CCCB on the Governing Board of the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC), CCCB delegate on the International Committee of Migrants and Refugees, member of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Episcopal Commission for Liturgy and the Sacraments and member of the Lutheran Church-Canada Roman Catholic Theological Dialogue.