Bernard-Claude Panet (January 9, 1753 – February 14, 1833) was a
Roman Catholic
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priest
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and
Archbishop of Quebec.
Born in
Quebec City
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, the son of
Jean-Claude Panet, he was from a family of 14 children. He had two siblings who gained some fame in Canadian history;
Jean-Antoine Panet who became a
Lower Canada
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politician and
Jacques Panet who also became a priest.
He was educated at the ''Petit Séminaire'' and the ''Grand Séminaire'' of Québec. He was ordained a priest in 1778, and began his career as a teacher. One of his noteworthy students was
Joseph-Octave Plessis who eventually preceded Panet as archbishop of the
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
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''Catholic Encyclopedia''
1753 births
1833 deaths
Roman Catholic archbishops of Quebec
19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Canada
Burials at the Cathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec
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