Bishop Genoud died on 21 September 2010 from lung cancer at a hospice in Fribourg, Switzerland, at the age of 68.
[2] In 2008, Bishop Genoud publicly asked Swiss Catholics for forgiveness during the priest sex abuse scandal in the country.
[2] On December 11, 2023, Bishop Charles Morerod made a statement to the press accusing his predecessor, Bernard Genoud, of sexual abuse by a woman, then aged 19.
The allegations date back to Bernard Genoud's days as a teacher at the Collège du Sud in Bulle, between 1976 and 1994.
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