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My story and that of the Eric Michel Ministries are intertwined.

My call to religious life came to fruition when I met Willy.

After leaving the Roman Catholic Church, I was introduced to John.

Historic describes events, objects, or places important to the history of Eric Michel and the ministry, from local to international in Africa, America and Asia.

Historiae Nostrae et Praecipuae Notae

1970 Eric Michel left the RCC
1978 Important date: The Ministry Foundation was a small research group in Hull, Quebec.
1978 January 19 Eric Michel Ministry Foundation (Under the name Société Universelle du Nouveau Synchretisme [S.U.N.S.] in English Universal Society of New Syncretism)
1978-1987 Foundation of Eric Michel Group RTTM. We entered the ministry as a small research group in Hull, Quebec. With the Lord’s help, we have honed that ministry to use His spiritual gifts better in a new Fellowship
1983 EMMI Ottawa Gatineau SUNS became Universal Christian Gnostic Church.
1985 Eric Michel is studying at the Dominican College Ottawa. (Bible) (Not Completed)
1985-1988 Eric Michel Seminarist and Deacon at The UCGC of Johannite Tradition under the Bishop T.T. Willy of Albany, New York (Universal Christian Gnostic Church)
1988 December 7 Important date: Eric Michel Ordained priest working as a bi-vocational by Bishop T.T. Willy of Albany, New York
2006 August Lost ministry’s documents, accessories, furniture issue of wife separation.(Civil Wedding not valid in the eyes of the church, was not the sacrament of matrimony)
2010 November 30th Important date: Eric Michel Consecrated Bishop by Most Revd. Bishop T.T. (Willy) Williamson of Albany, New York
2010 Important date: Universal Christian Gnostic Church foundation of The Reverend Eric Michel Ministry in Trois-Rivières
2010 January Important date: Symposium Eric Michel Elected Archbishop (President Bishop) installed on May 6.
2011 Important date: Ordained Chaplain at Eric Michel Ministry. Community Chaplaincy comprises people who worship Christ and want to spread his word in our country and the world. We believe in the Bible and strive to live our faith together. Our chaplaincy reflects a diverse gathering of people from all stages of life and spiritual development. We are not committed to just one race, age group, or demographic; we want to reach every person with the Gospel. The Gospel is the good news that Jesus lived and died to give us life forever. Eric Michel Ministry and Chaplaincy. Chaplaincy is a community that has offered many opportunities for people to grow in their relationship with Christ. We are a chaplaincy that loves people and wants to feed them from God’s Word, challenge them, and invite them to use their gifts to serve Christ with us.

2011 to 2014 Celebrant Pastor for the Evangelical Christian Church of Lorraine
2012 May 14 Important date: the Baptist Minister, the Reverend Marie Arnold, teamed up with EMMI and became Eric Michel’s spouse.
2012 Eric Michel Ordained Minister Christian UU. August 1, he was re-ordained Unitarian Minister at the Open-Door Open Faith Unitarian Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Also, for a short period, he became associated with the Evangelical Christian Church of Lorraine as a celebrant pastor and worked in the setup of the chaplaincy ministry. (Celebrate weddings authorized by the church and the Directeur de l’état civil)
2013 October 4 Important date: Rev. Marie Y. Arnold Appointed Bishop of New Hope Ministry & Missions Baptist Church
2013 Eric Michel joined the Canadian Volunteer Firefighters Service Association (Chaplain), member #108055
2013 Eric Michel became member # 10197469 of the Royal Canadian Legion
2014 February 16 Dear Brother Eric, Thank you for quickly responding to our inquiry. Our newly elected Council will meet in mid to late December for a quick meeting, and I will present your proposal that evening. I am sure that our faith organizations will be working together very shortly. Ed
2014 May 22 Ministerial Etiquette & Protocol
2014 June 6 Eric Michel Ministries, an UU Christian Fellowship, would like to welcome three new members, Isabelle, Jane and Lynn, to our Pet Chaplaincy Group.
2014 July 14 Important date: Eric Michel Ministry & Chaplaincy became Eric Michel Ministries International legally constituted as a Not-for-Profit Religious corporation at Industry Canada under the number # 895170-5 and at Canada Revenue Agency under the number # 80323 9177 RC001

2014.07.14 New Class of Memberships A and B
2014 August 05 First Board Meeting
2014 September 21 Ecclesiology, status and by-laws Proposal Working Document Only
2015.03.18 important date Updated Canon Law (Phase I)
2015 March 4 The EMMI Governance Meeting. At the EMMI Governance Meeting, The chairperson suggested that the directors consider that the Rev. Eric M. Gagnon is authorized and directed to execute and file all necessary applications for the Corporate under the number 895170-5 of Industry Canada. The motion was duly made, seconded, and unanimously adopted.

2015,04,01 Important date: Amendment regarding our faith from Christian Unitarian to Non-Denominational Christian

2015 February 15 Eric Michel completed the Facility Care & Stewardship (Trustees Training)
2015 Fondation of Footsteps of Jesus Seminary and Bible Academy. All our courses are by “Implementing Team Impact Christian University Curriculum” and accredited by Theological Accreditation International (TAI) or by the Worldwide Accreditation Commission of Christian Educational Institutions. Eric Michel Ministries International, under Research, Theology and Teaching Ministry and New Hope Ministry and Missions, provides an online Christian study program for future ministers in the Christian Faith, specializing in fully accredited graduate programs in theology. It is an online study or small classes program; it attracts students worldwide who want to serve as ministers in our EMMI family of Chaplains. We invite you to join us if you want to learn our traditions. Research, Theology and Teaching Ministry of Eric Michel Ministries International: Founded in 2015, our Seminary “Footsteps of Jesus” for future ministers in the Christian Faith specializing in fully accredited graduate programs in Theology. The Seminary is the next step of RTTM, which started in 1987, when our team scrutinized the Bible on the Quest for Jesus. It is an online studies program or small classes program that attracts students worldwide who want to serve as ministers in our EMMI family of Chaplains. We invite you to join us if you want to learn our traditions. We offer a course of education leading to ordination as a Christian minister. The Footsteps Of Jesus Seminary And Bible Academy is a professional organization that promotes Christian education. Suppose you have received God’s calling. We are here to help with your ordination, training and ministerial needs. It’s a blessing opportunity.
2017 July, USA form W-8BEN ref. ID A03838413DDU2VKTDH7RW
2017 June 18, a Malawi Methodist Church joined EMMI
2017 June 23, an Indian Pentecostal joined EMMI
2017 Foundation of The Interdenominational Assembly of Churches Association Ministry with Pentecostal Church Vadapalli India, represented by Philip Kumar, J.Kaladhar, Bethel Orphanage Care Foundation, represented by the Rev. Robert Muhindo, Glory Ministry in Kenya, represented by the Rev. Philip E. Odhiambo, Christ Commission Fellowship Church represented by Rt.Rev. Julius O. Nyambuoro, Conceição Souza NGO in Caucaia, Brazil, Happy Times Care Ministries by Pastor Muwonge Ibrahim, SET FREE CHURCH /MINISTRIES by Pastor David and Petronilla Turyatemba, African United Methodist by Rev. Xaviour Sebastian Chikwatu, Greater Grace Ministries by Rev. David Kisaame, Pentecostal Church in Nepal by Rev. Sunu Bajrachraya
2017.08.01 EMMI Affiliation Bylaws
2017 October 21 Important date: Updated Canon Law Phase II IAoC
2018.10.13 Convocation for Symposium on 2019.01.12
2019 Symposium/General Assembly To all members of the IAoC with an email ending with @bible-academy.org, please remember that we have an election to replace two members on the House of Elders (International Board) because their terms are ending. Please submit your representative or your name.

2020 FEB 08 Important date: SYMPOSIUM AT 10:00 EASTERN STANDARD TIME, MOTION PROPOSED AND ADOPTED BY PRESENT MEMBERS
In 2020, we joined the Third Order of St Francis (Ecumenical). Eric Michel is now a Born Again Catholic. Not the corporation.
2021 January 16 Important date: Symposium General Assembly
2021 The Notre Dame of Grace Benedictine Oblate was founded on October 15, 2021, as an Independent Catholic Ministry that promotes Christogenesis, the Monotheism Catholic Ministry of Eric Michel Ministries International (EMMI).
2021.11.02 Due to COVID-19 and financial issues, we closed our Ottawa office and limited ourselves to work only in the automobile.
2022.03.16 We are Officine mainly for the people of Western Québec and Eastern Ontario, but everybody is welcomed
2022 Eric Michel became member #118282 of the Volunteer Ministry of the National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC).
2022 March 19 Eric Michel became a member of The Sanctification of Families Union of Saint Francis of Assisi, a ministry of the Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist
2022.04.06 Important date: Affiliate Charter with the Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist and the Abbey of Saint Mary Theotokos
2023.01.08 St John Ambulance St Jean
2023.01.19 Member of Franciscan Federation
2023.02.18 Symposium and General Assembly Sat from 10:00 – 22:00 (EST)
2023/06 Beginning of the steps for the association and incardination with the Universal Gallican Catholic Church, with Mgr. Miranda (Église Catholique Gallicane Universelle)
2023.07.14 Celebration of the 9th anniversary of the Eric Michel International ministries (2014) and the 45th anniversary of our beginnings in 1978.
2023.06.15 The Notre Dame of Grace Benedictine Oblate changed its name to Our Lady of High Grace Benedictine Oblate
2023 August 24, following up on 2023/06 Gallican Church, after corresponding with 2 Bishops and giving them all the information required, we have no sign from them in 2 months…
2023 August 28 FoRCES received their Tactical Uniforms
2023 October 4 Feast of St. Francis & Blessing of Animals 18:00 – 19:00, for the third year.
2023 October 23 Chaplain Eric Michel started the Consecration to Our Lady Course
2023 October 26 Chaplain Eric Michel received the Certificate of Enrollment of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary
2023 November 09, the Archbishop is now a member of the Legion Riders
2023 November 11 New Certifications: Eric Michel’s Consecrated to the Holy Virgin Mary
2023.12.12 & 2024.02.11 Archbishop Eric Michel and Revd. Marie joined the Militia of Immaculata.
2024.02.26 Archbishop Eric Michel joined the International Conference of Catholic and Autocephalous Bishops (ICCAB)
20240714 on the anniversary of EMMI, we founded the Province of Cameroon

The Most Reverend Eric M. Gagnon is appointed Archbishop Metropolitan

2025 January 14 Amendment to our constitution, the corporation became New Life Catholic Ministry
2025 January 31 The association and the charter of the Order of the Franciscans of the Eucharist, your new association with the principles and rituals, are incompatible with Catholic doctrine. This action led me to resign my seat as a member of the International Conference of Catholic and Autocephalous Bishops (ICCAB), voiding our Charter of the Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist and leaving the membership of the Sanctification of Families Union of Saint Francis of Assisi.
2025 January 31 Eric Michel Ministries International will operate under the name: Third Order of the Franciscans of the Eucharist.

The Most Reverend Eric M. Gagnon appointed Patriarch with the Fondation of Provinces:

American Franciscan Province of the Three Marys https://www.facebook.com/groups/prv3m/
Franciscan Province Notre-Dame-D’Afrique https://www.facebook.com/groups/prov.africa/
La Provincia Franciscana de Nuestra Madre Señora de las Altas Gracias https://www.facebook.com/groups/pfmagp

Facebook Groups:

EMMI Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary https://www.facebook.com/groups/emmiconfraternity/
Groupe de prières du Chapelain / Chaplain Prayers Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/chaplainprayer/
New Life Catholic Chaplaincy (OFS) https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlcfc/
Road Warriors Chaplaincy https://www.facebook.com/groups/roadwarriorschaplain

The Seven Sacraments that I received:
Les Sept Sacrements que j’ai reçus :

1 The Sacrament of Baptism / Baptisé: Eglise Notre-Dame-de-Grâce November 11, 1951
2 The Sacrament of Confirmation / Confirmation Chapelle Ecole Normale Saint Joseph de la Paroisse Notre-Dame-de-Grâce 1958
3 The Sacrament of the Eucharist / Première communion Chapelle Ecole Normale Saint Joseph de la Paroisse Notre-Dame-de-Grâce 1958
4 The Sacrament of Penance / Confession: Chapelle Ecole Normale Saint Joseph de la Paroisse Notre-Dame-de-Grâce 1958
5 The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick / Extreme Unction: Not yet thank God!
6 Matrimony / Marriage: United Church of Canada September 1997 (separated 2006) was a civil wedding not valid by the church, not a sacrament.
7 Order / Ordre: Seminarist and Deacon 1985-1987 at The UCGC of Johannite Tradition by Bishop Theodore T. Williamson (Willy) of Albany, New York.

Ordained priest on December 7, 1988, as a bi-vocational, I started exercising my ministry in the Outaouais, then in Trois-Rivières, where he met the Baptist Minister, the Reverend Marie Arnold, in 2012.

I was consecrated bishop on November 30, 2010. In January 2011, I became archbishop by-election of the General Assembly and was installed on May 6, 2011.

In July 2011, I became a chaplain. Founder of the Eric Michel Ministry and Chaplaincy that became the Eric Michel Ministries International, a non-profit religious corporation, to Corporation Canada on July 14, 2014. Les Ministères Eric Michel International and Eric Michel Ministries International is legally constituted as a Not-for-Profit Religious Corporation at Industry Canada under the number # 895170-5 and at Canada Revenue Agency under the number# 80323 9177 RC001

My parents’ wedding was on Jan 2, 1951, on the steps of Our Lady of Grace RCC

I was born here at Sacred Heart Hospital on Nov 2, 1951, on a Friday

My Family at the celebration of my parents’ wedding anniversary,

I’m not the celebrant

I have two brothers and four sisters

They were married for 66 years until my dad died in 2017.

He was part of D-Day on June 44 and landed at Juno Beach, France.

Ecole Normale St Joseph 1958. The Nun is Sister Blanche Marie

174, rue Notre-Dame-de-l’Île, Gatineau (Québec) J8X 3T4 819-776-3123

Under this image, it says: Michel Gagnon, baptized on Nov. 11, 1951, did his first communion on May 13, 1958, in the chapel of the Normal School St Joseph and was confirmed on May 12, 1958.

I was a Wolfe Cub in 1960 and a Boy Scout in 1964. 1970 Wolfe Cub Chief Assistant and 1985 Girl Guide Chief Assistant, board member of the District representing the Girl Guides