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Montreal Gazette

By Peggy Curran, The Gazette
January 10, 2012

The pope is dead. Will there be a new pope, and how will we even find out?

For 40 years, Jean-Gaston Tremblay – also known as Pope Gregory XVII and Jean-Grégoire de la Trinité – had been the spiritual leader of the Apostles of Infinite Love, a breakaway Catholic cult based in a “monastery” sequestered in the countryside near St. Jovite.

“There’s a big fence around the community, but it wasn’t clear whether that was to keep prying eyes out, or to keep people in,” says Info-Cult’s Mike Kropveld, who has been monitoring “les Apôtres de l’amour infini” for decades.

Tremblay was 83 when he died in a Ste. Agathe hospital on New Year’s Eve.

For much of his life, Tremblay had been the target of police probes, arising from allegations of forcible detention, mental, sexual and…