of his church among white settlers and Indians. Although reduced in size in 1883 by the creation of the diocese of Qu’Appelle, McLean’s diocese had 22 clergy and seven catechists by 1886. This

claimed to have spent several years in a convent there and who, in the summer of 1835, began making slanderous allegations about members of the city’s Catholic clergy. In one of many outrageous statements

were two of the major political and social questions of the 19th century: the relations between temporal and spiritual authorities, and the role of the clergy in secondary education. In connection with

on a local initiative to increase the participation of the secular clergy in foreign missions. Rather than limiting their efforts to providing new recruits for missionary institutes of European origin

ministers in the capital. He unabashedly sold to the clergy of dissenting denominations the marriage licences issued to him by the provincial secretary; this practice, which allowed dissenting clergy to

. By 1844 Widder ambitiously proposed to Governor Metcalfe that the Canada Company should undertake on commission the administration of the province’s public lands, beginning with the clergy reserves

in a letter of 179l. “Wiswall is an infirm man,” he wrote, “& rather incapable of that exertion which the state of the country requires – like too many of the Clergy here, he does not seem to

leading evangelical, who immediately declined. The synod then adjourned for two months after establishing a committee of laity and clergy to bring forward names to be considered. Worrell, a theological

justified in believing that the prediction he had shared with Bishop Turgeon in the dark days of 1837 had come true: “The people, seeing their clergy take up their interests at a time when their previous

Roman Catholicism. The quiet conversion of the Canadians by a respectable French-language Protestant clergy was such a measure. The Protestant merchants, disadvantaged in competition with the

province’s isolated minority. In December 1908 he and Abbé Pierre-Elzéar Myre of neighbouring Bellevue (St-Isidore-de-Bellevue) outlined the role and policy of the paper and, along with other clergy, they

when he donned the cassock. He taught while pursuing his theological studies, a common practice at the time among the clergy; once he became a bishop, however, he denounced the practice, which would not

heart attack there on 1 April 1879. The clergy and congregation asked that burial be at this place where Conilleau had last preached the faith; he is thus one of the few Jesuits who were not

noms de plume. His articles covered a wide variety of political and economic subjects, such as balance of trade, capital punishment, secularization of the clergy lands, and a parliament of all

good choice. Gagnon had the support of influential members of the clergy, and had a good propaganda instrument at his disposal in Le Travailleur. He set to work enthusiastically to recruit

Trudel], he was backed by the clergy as well as the Journal des Trois-Rivières. He won with a large majority at the federal elections of 1872, and again in 1874 even though his party

a convent in Champlain for the sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame. For a while he considered returning to France, but the shortage of clergy in the colony encouraged him to remain. He died in

to be instructed by the Jesuits. It was Father Germain who organized two congregations dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary at the college, one for the clergy and the other for the students. He never

designing numerous new churches, such as St Peter’s, Portugal Cove, he spread the principles of the Gothic Revival by regular lectures to students and clergy. As colonial correspondent of the Oxford

Munn, and Hanrahan was actively supported by the Roman Catholic clergy. The election was rendered abortive “by the ferocious conduct of a mob at Carbonear.” Rowdyism at elections was, indeed