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The history of the Catholic Church in Canada extends back to the arrival of the earliest European explorers. A French priest accompanied the explorer Jacques Cartier, performing the first ever recorded Holy Mass on Canadian soil on July 7, 1534, on the shores of the Gaspé Peninsula.
Germain Morin (bap. 15 January 1642 – 20 August 1702) was born in Quebec City and the first Canadian to be ordained priest. Morin is known to have been at the Jesuit College in 1659 and to have been part of the organization and singing of masses. In that year he had the diaconate conferred on him by Bishop Laval
The First Thousand Years: A Brief History of the Catholic Church in Canada (2002) Laverdure, Paul. "Achille Delaere and the Origins of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Western Canada." Historical Papers (2004). online; McGowan, Mark. Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2005)
21st-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests (1 C, 21 P) J. Canadian Jesuits (5 C) R. Roman Catholic priests in New France (3 C, 15 P)
Father Pandosy's Mission was the first cemetery, [6] the first place of worship and the first school in the Southern Interior. [3] Two years after it was founded, 121 people were baptized at Okanagan Mission. In 1865, a brother's house was added to the site to house the many priests that stayed there as they were passing through as well as ...
Roman Catholic priest Andrew (Andy) Hogan (October 28, 1923 – April 10, 2002) was a Canadian politician and priest. He was the first Roman Catholic priest to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada .
Maillard was born in the diocese of Chartres, France, around 1710. [2] He received his ecclesiastical training at the Séminaire de Saint-Esprit, in Paris.In 1734, the Abbé de L'Isle-Dieu selected Maillard in a group of seminarists lent to the Séminaire des Missions Étrangeres, which was short of personnel.
African American who served as first openly Black Catholic priest in the United States, ordained in Rome in 1886. He was preceded by the Healy brothers, Catholic priests who passed as White. John Francis Reuel Tolkien: 16 November 1917 – 22 January 2003 An English Roman Catholic priest and the eldest son of J. R. R. Tolkien. John Bannon