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25 July 1837
- 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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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.
Jun 8, 2018 · Ignace had just been ordained a deacon when Bishop Jean-Jacques Lartigue, new Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec City in Montreal, chose him as secretary in 1821. On November 30, 1822, Ignace Bourget received his priestly ordination from 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.
On March 10, 1837, Pope Gregory XVI appointed him coadjutor to Bishop Lartigue, and on July 25 of the same year he was consecrated titular Bishop of Telemessa in Lycia. He took possession, on April 23, 1840, of the See of Montreal, made vacant some two weeks previously by the death of Bishop Lartigue.
On April 19, 1840, Jean-Jacques Lartigue died, and by right of succession on April 23, 1840, Ignace Bourget became Bishop of Montreal, a position which he held until 1876. [1]
Ignace Bourget was a fierce ultramontanist, supporting the supreme authority of the Pope in matters both secular and spiritual. He frequently clashed with the Canadian secular authorities…During the 1840s, Bourget led the expansion of the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec.
