Charles-François Baillargeon (April 26, 1798 – October 13, 1870) was a
Canadian
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Roman Catholic priest and archbishop.
Biography
He was from
Lower Canada
The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec an ...
and studied at the Collège de Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud and Collège de Nicolet followed by four years of theology at
Quebec
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where his choice of the priesthood was confirmed. He was ordained in 1822, and became chaplain of the church of
Saint-Roch and also the director of the college.
He then served as a parish priest and in 1831 was appointed by Bishop
Bernard-Claude Panet to the cathedral as a parish priest. This was an extremely taxing assignment and he was also working on a French translation of the New Testament for Bishop
Joseph-Octave Plessis.
He became Bishop Baillargeon in 1851 and archbishop in 1867. He continued to be active in his vocation until his death. Because he had not appointed a
coadjutor, two priests,
Charles-Félix Cazeau and
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau (February 17, 1820 – April 12, 1898) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1871 until his death in 1898. The first Canadian cardinal, he was elevated to the Coll ...
, served as administrators for a period.
See also
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec
The Archdiocese of Québec ( la, Archidiœcesis Quebecensis; french: Archidiocèse de Québec) is a Catholic archdiocese in Quebec, Canada. Being the first see in the New World north of Mexico, the Archdiocese of Québec is also the primatial s ...
References
External links
Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
1798 births
1870 deaths
Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec
19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Canada
Burials at the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec
Participants in the First Vatican Council
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