Team and Board of Directors

Jocelyn Groulx has been director of the  Québec Religious Heritage Council since 2000. He earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture at Université Laval, a master’s in management, with an option in built environment conservation at the Université de Montréal and an MBA in real estate at UQAM. From 1994 to 2000, he was project manager for the Centre of intervention for the revitalization of neighbourhoods (now Convercité) where he helped create several urban revitalization projects. He has worked for over twenty five years in the field of heritage conservation.

Isabelle Lortie is the resource person for the regional round tables of Laval-Laurentides-Lanaudière, Mauricie-Centre-du-Québec and l’Estrie. She ensures the information vigil on changing places of worship and updates the Inventaire des lieux de culte du Québec’ Website. She collects current information on religious heritage, produces status reports and documents some exemplary projects of churches transformation. Finally, she participates in the organization’s consultation and networking activities.

Isabelle Lortie holds a Master’s degree in Planning, Conservation of built heritage option (Université de Montréal) and a post-graduate diploma in Modern Architecture and Heritage (UQAM). In the summer of 2016, she did an internship with the CPRQ to identify resources specific to the restoration of modern churches. She then participated in the inventory of the built heritage of the MRC Pierre-De Saurel in 2017, and collaborated on the drafting of the brochure “The modern architecture of the institutions of the CSDM”, under the direction of Professor Claudine Déom.

Cameron Piper joined the team in August 2019. He participated in the implementation of the 2^nd edition of the Religious Heritage Days and is currently working on the event’s 3^rd edition. He accompanies the regional roundtables of Montreal, Outaouais and Abitibi-Temiscamingue.

Cameron Piper holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Planning from the University of Montreal (2019). His thesis, realized under the supervision of Claudine Déom, is entitled “Intraurban highways: Palimpsests of the Modern Movement” and focuses on the creative reuse of aging urban highways. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History in 2017 at Trinity University, in San Antonio, Texas. In summer 2016 he received an architectural research travel grant to study modern architecture in northern Europe.

Alicia Tremblay joined the Religious Heritage Council team in May 2020. She participates in supporting program projects aimed at requalifying surplus heritage places of worship, organizing the online formula for reflections on the transformation and implementation of the support process for projects admitted to the project incubator section.She is the resource person for the Regional Round Table of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Côte-Nord.

Alicia Tremblay holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental design (UQAM), a program based on an integrated approach to the design project, linking the scales of the object, architecture and territory as well as a diploma graduate studies specializing in modern architecture and heritage (UQAM). In the spring of 2020, she completed an internship with the CPRQ aimed at starting the program to requalify surplus heritage places of worship.

Camille St-Onge a rejoint le Conseil du patrimoine religieux du Québec à la fin de l’été 2024. Camille accompagne les tables de concertation de Chaudière-Appalaches, du Bas-Saint-Laurent et de la Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Elle participe à la mise en œuvre et le suivi des projets du programme d’aide financière visant la protection, la transmission et la mise en valeur du patrimoine culturel à caractère religieux. Elle assure le suivi des projets du volet 1 de l’incubateur à projets, et collabore aux activités liées au patrimoine religieux.

Anaïs Andraud a rejoint le Conseil du patrimoine religieux du Québec durant l’été 2023. Anaïs accompagne les tables de concertation de Chaudière-Appalaches, du Bas-Saint-Laurent et de la Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Elle participe à la mise en œuvre et le suivi des projets du programme d’aide financière visant la protection, la transmission et la mise en valeur du patrimoine culturel à caractère religieux. Elle assure le suivi des projets du volet 1 de l’incubateur à projets, et collabore aux activités liées au patrimoine religieux.

Titulaire de deux baccalauréats de la Sorbonne, en Histoire et en Histoire de l’art-Archéologie, Anaïs s’est intéressée à l’histoire de l’art européen en réalisant une maîtrise de recherche sur la peinture française du XVIIIe siècle. Elle s’est ensuite spécialisée dans la gestion du patrimoine culturel dans le cadre d’une maîtrise professionnelle à la Sorbonne. Anciennement conseillère municipale, Anaïs a notamment travaillé plusieurs années au Conseil International des Monuments et des Sites (ICOMOS), organe consultatif de l’UNESCO pour la gestion du processus d’évaluation des sites culturels et mixtes candidats à l’inscription sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO.

Active in the field of arts, culture and heritage since 2017, Franck Calard is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Montreal and holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in history of art from Sorbonne University (2019 and 2021). He also holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (2020), a master’s degree in heritage promotion and local development from the University of Le Mans (2021), a master’s in modern literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2024) and a master’s degree in religion and society from the University of Artois (2024). His research focuses on notions of identity, hybridization and cultural transfers, which he explores through the history of Quebec stained glass, Quebec art and religious heritage, as well as within the framework of his own artistic practice in research-creation. It focuses particularly on the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

In 2023, he published the exhibition catalog Lyse Charland Favretti: Breath of Lights at the presses of MUMAQ – Musée des métiers d’art du Québec. Since September 2024, he has been a lecturer at the department of history of art, cinema and audiovisual media at the University of Montreal.