Death of the Reverend Jean-Bernard Allard, P.S.S., former director of the French Sector National Liturgy Office of the CCCB

Friday, June 29, 2012

The Reverend Jean-Bernard Allard, P.S.S., former director of the French Sector National Liturgy Office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), died this past June 22 at the age of 83. His funeral is on June 30 at 10:30 a.m., in the Chapelle du Sacré-Coeur of Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal, followed by burial in the crypt of the Grand Séminaire of Montreal. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Montreal on September 21, 1957, and became member of the Sulpician Fathers in 1969. Father Allard joined the French Sector National Liturgy Office in 1976 as assistant director, and become director in May 1977. He continued as its director until the summer of 1987.