*, Bourget’s coadjutor. Pâquet’s fears regarding the new bishop’s factional loyalties proved to be real. Duhamel remained solidly in Bourget’s camp on the heated questions of the day concerning the clergy’s role

church; members centred their communal life on liturgy and mortification, while also devoting themselves to the parish duties normally assumed by the secular clergy. In 1884 Dom Benoit became master of

. Like the rest of the clergy, he had had his thinking shaped by the French revolution and counter-revolution. On 25 March 1810, he complied with Bishop Joseph-Octave

seminaries run by the Catholic clergy, particularly the seminary of Quebec and the work of Abbé John Holmes

throughout the southern interior, assisting and supporting overworked priests while trying to attract new secular clergy to the region. In 1915 John Welch, provincial (vicar of missions) of the Oblates of Mary

Land in 1857. He launched a campaign of political agitation, instigating a clergy sponsored petition against the HBC which received widespread support until quashed by Anderson. In 1858 he advocated the

Constitution of the Clergy, which did away with ecclesiastical titles and benefices. Desjardins first withdrew to his parents’ home in Messas and then went to Bayeux with Louis-Joseph, who had become a priest

who founded the local classical college, and his marriage with the pious Marie-Rosalie Papineau lend interest to the matter of his attitude to religion and the clergy’s influence. Dessaulles had known

, inspired by Pope Pius XI, issued a pastoral letter inviting the clergy of his archdiocese to coordinate the “existing religious charities” so as to “organize the activities of all Catholics in

, Meneval accused him of seeking to incite the garrison, the inhabitants, and the Indians to disobedience and to contempt not only of the governor’s authority, but of that of the clergy as well. On this

popularity with Anglican laymen in Toronto. At a time when most of the clergy in the Toronto diocese were high church, Grasett had a low church orientation, which he probably owed to his early training by

distant missions. Further, as corresponding secretary to the Church Missionary Society, he was the liaison between the local clergy and the headquarters in England. He was indefatigable in these duties as

deserves attention. In the late 1840s the clergy was endeavouring to stimulate large-scale colonization in Canada East in order to slow down the exodus of its Catholic population to the United States. In

clergy reserves question. Although a Methodist himself, Ketchum was no narrow sectarian. He attended St James’ Anglican Church when it was the only church in York, and, with gifts of land and money

” as worthy of imitation. Although numerical data are lacking, this movement seems to have been especially significant in areas where Anglicans were unattended by clergy of their own. In general, the

Plessis*’s determination to give the English-speaking Roman Catholics of the Maritimes a sufficient number of clergy. Several “carefully chosen” youths were sent to study in the seminaries of Lower

slow his advancement in the government. In 1828 he was appointed secretary receiver of the Upper Canada Clergy Corporation which administered the leasing of the clergy reserves. In the same year he

. “Instead of doing the same thing as the American clergy, who not only gather information but sympathize with the workers, ours . . . learned only what the gossipmongers reported to them,” he would

1899. His masonic activities and ideas often got him into trouble with both the Roman Catholic clergy and several of his medical colleagues. Although Martigny was struck from the rolls of L’Émancipation

Chartier* de Lotbinière, a Canadian, had been expected to get this important office, since the Canadian clergy felt it was time they were invited to take part in the administration of the church in