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Tignish, etc. In all these missions he succeeded, by his zeal and untiring energy, in building churches and parochial houses. In the autumn of 1829 he was appointed pastor of Charlottetown and the neighboring missions. In 1836 he was nominated by the Pope successor to the Right Reverend Bishop MacEachern, and on the fifteenth of October of' that

year was consecrated Bishop of Charlottetown in Saint Patrick’s Church, Quebec.

The deceased prelate was charitable, hospitable, and pious. Having few priests in his diocese, he himself took charge of a mission; and besides attending to all his epis- copal functions, he also discharged. the duties of a parish priest. He took a deep interest in the promotion of educa- tion. He established in his own district schools in which the young might be instructed, not only in secular knowl- edge, but also in their moral and religions duties, and 6110011 ‘aged as much as possible their establishment through- out the whole extent of his diocese. Aided by the co—opera— tion of the charitable and by the munificent donation of a. gentleman, now living, he was enabled to establish in Char- lottetown a convent of ladies of the Congregation dc Notre Dame,—which institution is now in a flourishing condition, affording to numerous young ladies, belonging to Charlotte- town and other parts of the island, the inestimable blessing of a superior education. But the educational establishment. in which the bishop appeared to take the principal interest was Saint Dunstan’s College. This institution, which is an ornament to the island, the lamented bishop opened early in- 1855. The care with which he watched over its progress and provided for its wants, until the time of his death, was truly paternal. Long before he departed, he had the satis- faction of' seeing the institution established on a firm basis

and in a prosperous condition.