Alphonse-Marie Parent

Alphonse-Marie Parent CC (April 2, 1906 – October 7, 1970) was a Canadian priest, educator and academic administrator.

Born in Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Quebec, the son of Alphonse Parent and Marie Gosselin, he studied at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and the Séminaire de Québec.

He was ordained a priest in 1929, and obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain.

During the 1940s, he worked for the Austrian imperial family and for Pope Pius XII.

The commission's recommendations led to the creation of the Quebec's CEGEP which replaced the classical colleges.