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- Bourget saw both completed by 1825. Lartigue recommended Bourget to Rome and on 25 July 1837 Bourget was installed as his coadjutor with right of succession, which took effect at Lartigue's death on 19 April 1840.
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Ignace Bourget (October 30, 1799 – June 8, 1885) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest who held the title of Bishop of Montreal from 1840 to 1876. Born in Lévis, Quebec, in 1799, Bourget entered the clergy at an early age, undertook several courses of religious study, and in 1837 was named co-adjutor bishop of the newly created bishopric of ...
Jun 8, 2018 · On November 30, 1822, Ignace Bourget received his priestly ordination from Bishop Lartigue. On March 10, 1837, he was named Bishop of Telmesse and coadjutor of Mgr Lartigue. Ignace Bourget […]
By an apostolic brief issued by Gregory XVI, on March 10, 1837 Abbé Bourget was appointed bishop of Telmesse in partibus infidelium and coadjutor of the bishop with right of succession. He was consecrated bishop on July 25 of 1837 in Saint James cathedral.
Weighed down by so much labour, and often sick, Bourget had secured Canon Édouard-Charles Fabre*, Cartier’s brother-in-law, as a coadjutor. The archbishop of Quebec presided at his consecration on 1 May 1873 in the church of the Collège Sainte-Marie.
On 10 March, 1837, Pope Gregory XVI appointed him coadjutor to Bishop Lartigue, and on 25 July of the same year he was consecrated titular Bishop of Telemessa in Lycia. He took possession, on 23 April, 1840, of the See of Montreal, made vacant some two weeks previously by the death of Bishop Lartigue.
When Montreal became a diocese (1836), Bourget was named vicar-general; the following year he was consecrated coadjutor bishop, and in 1840 he succeeded to the see. His first concern was to obtain the priests and institutions Montreal needed.
