Cleary*, who had died in February 1898. Kingston’s clergy were fearful that the Vatican might appoint the bishop of Waterford and Lismore, in Ireland, to succeed the Irish-born Cleary, instead of

the same time maintaining cordial relations with the clergy. He acted as counsel, for example, for Bishop Édouard-Charles

(St Matthew’s) Church, Gerrish undertook with Salter in 1770 to appeal for financial aid from large churches in Boston on behalf of the Congregational churches and clergy in Nova Scotia. The

secularization of the clergy reserves were passed. He then opposed such Hincksite proposals as the Grand Trunk aid bill of 1857 and became, in the main, a supporter of the policies of George

, particularly concerning education and the influence of the clergy in politics, and thereby incurred the censure of the seminary and bishopric of Saint-Hyacinthe

religious outlook, though often critical of the Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy of the colony. His attitude to those he saw as representative of an unjust order, from Lord Selkirk

institutions over the years, encouraged by the local Baptist clergy and the university faculty. In 1855 one of the most memorable took place, a vivid account of which was left by one of the participants, Edward

at the Séminaire de Nantes in 1790. Having refused, like the other Sulpicians, to take the oath of loyalty to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, he left Nantes for Bilbao, Spain, on 15 Sept

of the clergy on political questions. He claimed that the judges, magistrates, and ecclesiastical hierarchy were convinced they had supreme authority in the province and that in exhorting the faithful

,” Canadian Church Hist. Soc., Journal (Toronto), 28 (1986): 19–30. J. E. Foster, “Program for the Red River Mission: the Anglican clergy, 1820–1826,” Social Hist. (Ottawa), no.4

missionary clergy of the Church of England, at Canterbury. There he was taught to read and write and was given religious instruction; for a year and a half he also spent five hours a day in the shop of a

practice he had to depend upon the SPG. Newfoundlanders, like colonists everywhere, would not pay for clergy whom missionary societies would provide free of charge. Kilpatrick’s initial efforts at

treatment of the Roman Catholic clergy captured at Quebec. He was in Quebec in 1631 and again in 1632 when the post was restored to the French and may have been there throughout the occupation

. In the next general election in 1836, Kough and two colleagues of the mercantile party, Nicholas Gill and John Thomas Grieve, were bitterly opposed by the leading Catholic clergy and by most of the

Gagné*]. He informed Bégin on 15 June that he was “delighted with the priests and the people of [his] diocese,” despite “childish behaviour” by certain members of his clergy when he arrived

admission to the province constituted an exception, since after the conquest the British government had forbidden the Canadian clergy to recruit priests in France. His compatriot went back to France in 1783

form of information on crown and clergy reserves that might become available. In the early 1830s he attempted his largest promotion, a planned

Manitoba. That year, however, Taché, who could not get more Oblates for the staff, had to resign himself to putting it in the hands of secular clergy. Lavoie then became assistant priest and, five years

Collège de Valognes. During the French revolution Le Courtois refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy imposed

Séminaire des Missions Étrangères in Paris requesting the aid of French clergy with the Acadian missions. Upon his arrival Le Roux was sent to