MacEachern, Bishop Angus Bernard National Historic Person
St. Andrews, Prince Edward Island
Portrait
(© None; Wikipedia)
Address :
Veteran's Memorial Highway 2, St. Andrews, Prince Edward Island
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1968-11-28
Life Date:
1759 to 1835
Other Name(s):
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MacEachern, Bishop Angus Bernard
(Designation Name)
Importance:
First Roman Catholic Bishop of Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Magdalen Island-1829)
Plaque(s)
Existing plaque: St. Andrew's Chapel, Lot 37, Queens County, Plan 56109 Veteran's Memorial Highway 2, St. Andrews, Prince Edward Island
Angus Bernard MacEachern, a pioneer missionary, born in 1759, emigrated from Scotland in 1790. For forty-five years he ministered zealously to the people of Prince Edward Island, the Magdalen Islands, and to large sections of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Appointed suffragan to the Bishop of Quebec in 1819, he became, in 1829, the first Bishop of Charlottetown with jurisdiction over Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and the Magdalen Islands. He founded the Island's first institution of higher learning at St. Andrew's in 1831. This distinguished ecclesiastical and civil leader died in 1835.