Raymond Gravel
Raymond Gravel (born November 4, 1952 in Saint-Damien-de-Brandon , Québec , † August 11, 2014 in Joliette , Québec) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and member of the Canadian lower house .
Life
Raymond grew up in Québec. At the age of 16, Gravel left home and moved to Montreal , where he was an escort and worked in bars for gays. At the age of 30, Gravel entered a Catholic seminary in Canada in 1982 and studied theology at the University of Montreal . After his training, Gravel was ordained a priest . He served as a priest at St. Joachim Church in La Plaine , Québec.
Gravel was put up on October 29, 2006 as a candidate for the Canadian Bloc Québécois party . When he was refused permission by the church leadership to run, Gravel applied for a leave of absence. Gravel won the parliamentary elections and moved into the House of Commons as a member of the Repentigny constituency on November 27, 2006. In the general election of 2008, he decided not to run again and was again active as a priest.
Web links
- CV of Gravel (French) (PDF file; 14 kB)
- Raymond Gravel - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
- Biography at Blocquebecois (French)
- L'abbé Gravel est mort. Obituary on the homepage of ICI Radio-Canada from August 11, 2014 (French)
- L'abbé Raymond Gravel est décédé. Obituary in La Presse on August 11, 2014 (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Montreal Gazette: "Controversial priest wants Bloc Repentigny nomination" ( Memento of the original of March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The Gazette , October 25, 2006.
- ↑ The Gazette: Controversial priest wants Bloc Repentigny nomination ( Memento of the original of March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Catholicregister.org ( Memento of October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Priest MP leaves politics after pressure from Vatican on cbc.ca of September 3, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gravel, Raymond |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian MP and Roman Catholic priest |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th November 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Damien-de-Brandon , Quebec |
| DATE OF DEATH | 11th August 2014 |
| Place of death | Joliette , Quebec , Canada |