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	Bishop Guilty of Sex Offences Dead of a Heart Attack The Vancouver Sun July 30, 2007 http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=4fd5a845-7f8b-4e01-a436-f2607f3f93cb Canada — Funeral services will be held in Vancouver Tuesday for former Prince George Catholic Bishop Hubert O'Connor. O'Connor, who was convicted in 1996 of raping one native teenage girl and indecently assaulting another, died of a heart attack last week in Toronto. He was 79. The funeral will be at St. Augustines's Parish. He will be buried in the Oblates of Mary Immaculate Cemetery in Mission, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a news release. O'Connor resigned as bishop of the diocese of Prince George, when he first faced sex charges in 1991. When he was convicted in 1996 he was then the highest-ranking Catholic in the world to be found guilty of sex offences. Both incidents took place in the 1960s, while O'Connor was a priest and principal of the Cariboo Indian Residential School near Williams Lake, B.C. Sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison, O'Connor applied for day parole in 1997, and was turned down. The parole board called him "an unmanageable risk" who viewed his victims with contempt. He had, however, already been released pending an appeal of his sentence. The B.C. Court of Appeal said that by the time the cleric's case could be heard he would have already completed his sentence.
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