Colin Francis MacKinnon (July 20, 1810 – September 26, 1879) was a Canadian

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Archbishop and founder of

St. Francis Xavier University St. Francis Xavier University is a public undergraduate liberal arts university located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a member of the Maple League, a group of primarily undergraduate universities in Eastern Canada. History St. Franc ...

and Saint Ninian's Cathedral.

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Born in William's Point, in the County of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, the son of John MacKinnon and Eunice MacLeod, MacKinnon's father came to the United States from

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, Scotland in 1791 and soon settled in Nova Scotia. MacKinnon travelled by sea through a terrible storm to Rome in 1828 to make his theological studies at the

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or Pontifical Urban UniversityCollege of Cardinals Biographical notes, Holy See Press
(accessed May 28, 2010) ( la, Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana) is a

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under the authority of the

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. It is also known as The Collegio Urbano of Propaganda Fide.The university is located on the

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in Rome and has four faculties: the faculty of Theology, the faculty of Philosophy, the faculty of

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, and the faculty of

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. The origins of the university date back to

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who decided to establish the Urban College with his papal bull ''

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'' (August 1, 1627). The Pontifical Urbaniana University was endowed with the title "Pontifical" with the

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'' Fidei Propagandae'' of

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, on October 1, 1962. From its beginnings, the Urbaniana has always been an academic institution with a missionary character that has served the

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through the formation of

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and experts in the area of Missiology or other disciplines, necessary in the

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al activity of the Church. MacKinnon was ordained priest by Archbishop

Giacomo Filippo Fransoni Giacomo Filippo Fransoni (10 December 1775 – 20 April 1856) was an Italian prelate and cardinal who served from 1834 to 1856 as prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. He was the cardinal priest of the Church of San ...

on June 4, 1837. Returning to Nova Scotia, he was appointed the first resident pastor at St Andrews, Sydney County, Nova Scotia. On November 9, 1851, he was appointed Bishop of Arichat by Pope Pius IX. On February 27, 1852 he was consecrated bishop by Bishop William Walsh, at St. Mary's Cathedral, Halifax and this was the first consecration of a Catholic bishop in Halifax. In 1853, he founded a seminary, St. Francis Xavier College, which grew into St. Francis Xavier University. He resigned in 1877 and was then made an Archbishop. He died in 1879, aged 69.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mackinnon, Colin Francis 1810 births 1879 deaths 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada Canadian people of Scottish descent Roman Catholic bishops of Antigonish

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