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Bishop Angus Bernard MacEachern

Angus Bernard MacEachern, a pioneer missionary, born in 1759, emigrated from Scotland in 1790. For forty-five years he ministered zealously to the people of Prince Edward Island, the Magdalen Islands, and to large sections of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Appointed suffragan to the Bishop of Quebec in 1819, he became, in 1829, the first Bishop of Charlottetown with jurisdiction over Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and the Magdalen Islands. He founded the Island’s first institution of higher learning at St. Andrew’s in 1831. This distinguished ecclesiastical and civil leader died in 1835.

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Évêque Angus Bernard MacEachern

Né en Ecosse en 1759, venu en 1790 à l’Ile St. Jean (ci-après l’Ile-du- Prince Edouard), d’abord missionaire, il desservit pendant quarante-cinq années les fidèles de I’lle, des Iles-de-la-Madeleine et de régions étendues de la Nouvelle- Ecosse et du Nouveau-Brunswick. Suffragant de l’évèque de Québec en 1819, il devint, en 1829, le premier évèque de Charlottetown. Sa juridiction s’étendit à 1’lle-du-Prince-Edouard, au NouveauBrunswick et aux Iles-de-la- Madeleine. il fonda, en 1831, la première institution d’enseignement supérieur à St. Andrew’s. Il mourut en 1835.

Location: Veteran's Memorial Highway, St. Andrews
Emplacement : route 2, St. Andrews
Coordinates · Coordonnées: 46.383173, -62.854027
Source: Parks Canada – Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada commemorative plaques (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)
Licence · Permission: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
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