{{short description|Canadian-born Ugandan Catholic bishop}} {{EngvarB|date=July 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Bishop |honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend |name = Robert Gay |title = Bishop Emeritus of Kabale |church = Roman Catholic Church |archdiocese = Mbarara |see = Kabale |appointed = 11 January 1996 |term_end = 15 March 2003 |predecessor = Barnabas Rugwizangonga Halem ’Imana |successor = Callistus Rubaramira |other_post = Superior General of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) (1980 -1986) |ordination = 30 January 1954 |consecration = 9 March 1996 |consecrated_by = Emmanuel Wamala |cardinal = |rank = Bishop |birth_name = Robert Marie Gay |birth_date = 22 January 1927 |birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2016|06|29|1927|01|22}} |death_place = Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |previous_post = |motto = }}
'''Robert Marie Gay''' (22 January 1927 – 29 June 2016) was a Canadian-born Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate. He was the second bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kabale from 1996 to 2003.<ref name="1R">{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgayrob.html |title=Bishop Robert Marie Gay, M. Afr.† |publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org |date=30 April 2018 |access-date=22 July 2019 |author=David M. Cheney |place=Kansas City}}</ref>
==Background and priesthood== Gay was born in Ottawa, Ontario on 22 January 1927. He joined the missionary congregation of the Missionaries of Africa and on 30 January 1954 was ordained as priest. He served as Superior General of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), from 1980 until 1986.<ref name="1R"/>
==As bishop== Gay was appointed bishop by the Pope John Paul II on 11 January 1996. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 9 March 1996. The principal consecrator was Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kampala, assisted by Bishop Barnabas Rugwizangonga Halem ’Imana, Bishop Emeritus of Kabale and Bishop Paul Kamuza Bakyenga, Bishop of Mbarara. Bishop Gay retired on 15 March 2003.<ref name="1R"/>
==Sickness and death== Gay died on 29 June 2016 at Passages Hospice, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 89 years.<ref name="1R"/><ref name="2R">{{cite web|date=2 July 2016 | url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Kabale-Diocese-Bishop-Emeritus--Mary-Gay-dies/688334-3276976-13lojy0z/index.html | title=Kabale Diocese Bishop Emeritus Mary Gay Dies |access-date=22 July 2019 |newspaper=Daily Monitor |author=Robert Muhereza | location=Kampala}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Reporter |first=Vision |title=Former Bishop of Kabale Robert Gay passes away |url=https://www.newvision.co.ugnull/ |access-date=2025-12-17 |website=New Vision }}{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
==See also== * Uganda Martyrs * Roman Catholicism in Uganda
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dkabl.html Profile of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kabale]
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