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Dennis P Drainville

Born in Joliette Quebec in 1954, Dennis Paul Drainville has led a double life. There is the very public life of university, employment and community leadership. The public life ended in 2016 when Dennis retired as the 12th Lord Bishop of Quebec. He Had graduated with distinction from Trinity College at the University of Toronto. He then went-on to be an ordained priest working in rural parishes and running an urban-core ministry to the poor, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1990 taught for 12 years at a Cegep College in Gaspe Quebec, and was elected bishop in 2007, The role of bishop led him into international ecumenical work as Co-Chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue.

The other part of his double life focused on social action, family life and working through the left-over effects of a dysfunctional and damaging childhood.

When Dennis was working with poor and homeless people, he had a conversion experience which was both spiritual and political. It affected his own sense of self as well as his sense of how society was structured. He started collaborating with individuals who were taking on “the system.” Which at times brought him into conflict with the Church and the political structures of society. During those years he advocate for social Justice by supporting women’s rights, indigenous rights, human rights and gay rights.

Dennis has been married 3 times and has a daughter, Aurora, who is the light of his life. He lives with Jeanie a biologist and wild woman who lives and works to the speed of sound. As an animal lover, he is proud to co-habit with a hamster, saved from death row, 2 rescue dogs and 2 rescue half- blind cats.

Dennis P Drainville

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