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.
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.
