Rev. Jean-François Petitpas

Rev. Jean-François Petitpas for his distinguished religious and military careers and his outstanding work as a genealogist. The son of Joseph-Paul-Robert Petitpas and Marie-Thelma LeBlanc, Jean-François Petitpas was born 12 July 1965 at Cap-aux-Meules, Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Québec. After completing his secondary education at Îles-de-la-Madeleine in 1982, Jean-François attended the Université Laval in Québec City where he graduated in 1987 and the Université Saint-Paul d'Ottawa in Ottawa from which he graduated in 1998. Returning to his home on Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Jean-François Petitpas was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on 11 July 1999 at St-André Catholic Church in Cap-aux-Meules. After serving several years as a diocesan priest, Rev. Petitpas joined the Canadian Armed Forces as a military chaplain in July 2006. Currently, Rev. Petitpas is retired from the Canadian Armed Forces after serving 18 years and lives in Québec, Québec. A well-recognized genealogist, Rev. Petitpas has done extensive research using both Canadian and French archival sources. He collaborated with Dennis Boudreau on the 4-volume seminal work "Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles des Îles-de-la-Madeleine". Additionally, Rev. Petitpas is seeking the roots of the Acadian Petitpas family in France and has discovered promising leads. He has written two significant articles on the early Petitpas family in "Generations" . Rev. Jean-François Petitpas brings great distinction to his Petitpas family through his outstanding religious and military careers and as a noted genealogist of the Îles-de-la-Madeleine families and the early Petitpas family.