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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Quebec (3994 words) |
 | The parish church of Quebec, begun in 1647, consecrated in 1666 by the prelate, became and remains the cathedral. |
| 1833, parish priest of Rivière-Ouelle, consecrated Bishop of Saldes and coadjutor of Quebec (1807), was bishop from 1825 to 1833. |
| On the tercentenary of the foundation of Quebec (1908) a monument was erected to Bishop Laval. |
| Archdiocese of Quebec (4006 words) |
| The first parish erected was that of Quebec (1664) which, suppressed by the Bull of erection of the diocese, was reestablished by the bishop in 1684 and united to the seminary; he also instituted a chapter. |
| The foundation of the Quebec Sisters of Charity (1849) and of the Good Shepherd (1850), the reorganization of ecclesiastical conferences the publication of a new catechism and the approval of Butler's for English-speaking Catholics are the chief acts of Bishop Turgeon's administration. |
| His classical course was made in Quebec; after taking in France the degree of licentiate in letters, he was professor of rhetoric and prefect of studies in the Quebec seminary, became pastor of the Canadians at Hartford, Conn., and in 1901 was first parish priest of Jacques-Cartier in Quebec. |
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