François Thibodeau

Infobox Christian leader type = Bishop honorific_suffix = C.I.M. name = François Thibodeau title = Bishop of Edmundston church = Catholic Church diocese = Diocese of Edmundston term = 22 October 1993 – 5 January 2009 predecessor = Gérard Dionne successor = ordination = 8 May 1965 ordained_by = Joseph-Aurèle Plourde consecrated_by = Gérard Dionne

Thibodeau was born on July 27, 1939, in Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne, Quebec. He studied philosophy at the Sacré-Coeur Seminary in Charlesbourg, Quebec City, and Catholic theology at St. Jean-Eudes Scholasticate in Pointe-Gatineau. Thibodeau was ordained a Catholic priest on May 8, 1965, by Bishop Joseph-Aurèle Plourde of Ottawa. He then received a bachelor's degree in social work from Laval University.

In 1971, Thibodeau was appointed Director of Social Affairs for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, which he held from 1971 to 1986. He then served as editor-in-chief of Pastorale-Québec, the official publication of the Archdiocese of Quebec, from 1986 until 1990.

Thibodeau was appointed the fifth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Edmundston on October 20, 1993, and consecrated on January 9, 1994, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Bishop Emeritus François Thibodeau died at the Résidence Domaine Mahonia in Quebec City, Quebec, on June 26, 2023, at the age of 83. He was buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.