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Blanchet was consecrated a bishop on July 25, 1845 by Archbishop Ignace Bourget at Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral in Montréal. Then on July 24, 1846, the Vatican under Pope Pius IX divided the vicariate apostolic into three dioceses: Oregon City, Vancouver Island, and Walla Walla. Blanchet was named Bishop of Oregon City, while Demers was ...
Bishop Norbert was appointed archbishop of Oregon City with two suffragan bishops: Magloire Blanchet, the bishop of Walla Walla and Modeste Demers, the bishop of Vancouver Island. He was zealous in carrying out his administrative tasks and resigned in December of 1880.
François Norbert Blanchet. Missionary and first Archbishop of Oregon City, U.S.A. son of Pierre Blanchet, a Canadian farmer, born 30 September, 1795, near Saint-Pierre, Riviere du Sud, Province of Quebec ; died 18 June, 1883, at Portland, Oregon. After three years in the village school he went in 1810, with his brother Augustin Magloire, later ...
In 1880 he resigned and was appointed titular Archbishop of Amida. He consecrated three bishops — Demers, D'Herbomez, and Seghers. He found on the Pacific coast a wilderness, spiritual as well as material; the left, after forty-six years of heroic work, a well-provided ecclesiastical province.
François Norbert Blanchet arrived in Oregon in November 1838 as vicar general to the diverse Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest, the French Canadians, the British, the Americans, and others who occupied the vast Oregon Country.
An old man worn out by toil and illness, Augustin-Magloire Blanchet resigned from his post and became bishop of Ibora in partibus infidelium on 23 Dec. 1879; he remained in the diocese of Nesqually until his death in February 1887.
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ARCHBISHOP BLANCHET. – The Most Reverend F.N. Blanchet ranked among the apostolic men who laid the deep foundations of the Catholic faith in this country. He was born at St. Pierre, Riviere-du-Sud, Quebec, Canada, September 5, 1795, was educated in the Petit Seminaire, Quebec, and was ordained July 18, 1819, by Archbishop Plessis.
