Former Head of Savannah Catholic Diocese Passes Away

WSAV
January 4, 2016

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Bishop Raymond Lessard, Bishop Emeritus of Savannah, died Sunday at his home in St. Vincent de Paul Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida.

Bishop Lessard served as the Catholic Bishop of Savannah From 1973 to 1995. He was serving at the St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary for the last twenty years as spiritual director and professor of ecclesiology.

After a visitation at the seminary on Saturday, his body will be transfered back to Savannah to be received at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Monday.

Visitation will be held from 3pm to 7pm and an evening prayer service including the Office for the Dead will be held at 7pm.

The Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 12 noon on Tuesday, January 12 at the Cathedral.

Bishop Lessard will be buried in the Bishops’ Lot at the Catholic Cemetery in Savannah. The last bishop buried at the Cemetery was Bishop Benjamin J. Keiley, who died in 1925.