Bishop Modeste Demers †

Deceased

Bishop of Vancouver Island, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Oct 1809		Born
7 Feb 1836	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Québec, Canada
28 Jul 1846	36.7	Appointed	Bishop of Vancouver Island, USA
30 Nov 1847	38.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Vancouver Island, USA
5 Sep 1852	42.9	Installed	Bishop of Vancouver Island, USA
28 Jul 1871	61.7	Died	Bishop of Vancouver Island, USA

MicroData Summary for Modeste Demers
(VIAF: 105881162; WikiData: Q3317901)
Bishop Modeste Demers (born 11 Oct 1809, died 28 Jul 1871) Bishop of Vancouver Island

First Vatican Council: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place St.-Nicholas-de-Lévis, Diocese of Québec, Canada
Ordained Priest Cathedral, Québec, Archdiocese of Québec, Canada
Ordained Bishop St. Paul, Willamette, OR, Archdiocese of Oregon City, Oregon
Death Place Victoria, Diocese of Vancouver Island
Buried Place (Original) Crypt, St. Andrew, Cathedral, Victoria, Diocese of Vancouver Island

a priest for 35.4 years
a bishop for 23.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Pierre-Flavien Turgeon †
Titular Bishop of Sidyma
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop François-Norbert Blanchet †
Bishop of Oregon City, Oregon
Assisted by:
Father Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc
Priest of Oregon City, Oregon
Father Antoine Langlois
Priest of Oregon City, Oregon

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop François-Norbert Blanchet † (1845)
Bishop of Oregon City, Oregon
Bishop Ignace Bourget † (1837)
Bishop of Montréal, Québec
Bishop Jean-Jacques Lartigue, P.S.S. † (1821)
Bishop of Montréal, Québec
Archbishop Joseph-Octave Plessis † (1801)
Archbishop of Québec
Bishop Pierre Denaut † (1795)
Bishop of Québec
Bishop Jean-François Hubert † (1786)
Bishop of Québec
Bishop Jean-Olivier Briand † (1766)
Bishop Emeritus of Québec
Bishop Charles-Gilbert de May de Termont † (1753)
Bishop of Blois
Archbishop Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire † (1741)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Louis-Jacques Chapt de Rastignac † (1722)
Archbishop of Tours
Bishop Jean-François Salgues de Valderies de Lescure † (1699)
Bishop of Luçon
Archbishop Louis-Antoine de Noailles † (1679)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop François de Harlay de Champvallon † (1651)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Nicolò Guidi di Bagno † (1644)
Titular Archbishop of Athenae
Antonio (Marcello) Cardinal Barberini (Sr.), O.F.M. Cap. † (1625)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Bishop Laudivio Zacchia † (1605)
Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone
Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini † (1604)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Clement VIII (1592)
(Ippolito Aldobrandini (Sr.) †)
Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) † (1564)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Francesco Cardinal Pisani † (1527)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Alessandro Cardinal Farnese † (1519)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Louis Aloysius Lootens † (1851)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Louis-Joseph D’Herbomez, O.M.I. † (1864)

Event	Place
Birth Place	St.-Nicholas-de-Lévis, Diocese of Québec, Canada
Ordained Priest	Cathedral, Québec, Archdiocese of Québec, Canada
Ordained Bishop	St. Paul, Willamette, OR, Archdiocese of Oregon City, Oregon
Death Place	Victoria, Diocese of Vancouver Island
Buried Place (Original)	Crypt, St. Andrew, Cathedral, Victoria, Diocese of Vancouver Island

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 581
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1847, Number 42
b: Dictionnaire Biographique des Évèques Catholiques du Canada, Page 427, to Page 429

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