On September 4, 1976, Bouchard was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall.[1] He was appointed assistant pastor of the Co-cathédral de la Nativité de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie between 1976 and 1979, and again between 1984 and 1986. He then became administrator of the Co-cathedral in 1986 and then rector in 1986–1987. Bouchard then went on to become an assistant pastor at the parish Ste-Thérèse-de-Lisieux in 1983. Between 1987 and 1990, Bouchard became the parish priest of the parish Saints-Martyrs Canadiens. Between 1994 and 1999, Bouchard became parish priest of the parish Sacré-Coeur.
Professor
Bouchard taught at the seminary in Montréal, Québec between 1985 and 1990. Equally, in 1990 to 1994 and again in 1999, Bouchard was a member of vocation formations of the seminary Saint-Joseph in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1999, he became the director of the seminary and the rector in 2000.
Episcopal career
Mgr Luc Bouchard, Bishop of Trois-Rivières
On September 8, 2001, when he was still rector of the Saint-Joseph seminary in Edmonton, Bouchard was nominated to be the Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta.[2] He was consecrated by Archbishop Thomas Christopher Collins the then Archbishop of Edmonton on November 9, 2011.
Within the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Bouchard was a member of the permanent council and of many other Episcopal Commissions. He was also the President of the Episcopal Commission of Theology. In 2008, he was one of the Canadian delegates of the Synod of Bishops on the Bible held in Rome. Currently, he remains a member of the
Episcopal Commission of Doctrine.
On February 2, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bouchard Bishop of Trois-Rivières to succeed Bishop Martin Veillette, who reached the age of 75 and, by Canon Law, must submit his resignation to the Pope.[3][4] Bouchard's enthronement took place on March 26, 2012, at the Cathédral de l'Assomption de Marie in Trois-Rivières.[5]
