CHAPTER IV.-THE BISHOPS OF UPPER CANADA.
Before the erection of
the Bishopric of Kingston in January, 1826, the Bishop of Quebec had
jurisdiction over all of both Upper and Lower Canada. Then there
were not many Catholics in the Upper Province. When the Right
Rev. Alexander McDonell was made Vicar Apostolic for Upper
Canada, it seems, on December 30, 1820, he was deputed to look after
church affairs in Upper Canada. At that time he had only two or
three priests under him in the whole Province. He was made Bishop
of Kingston on January 27, 1826, for
RIGHT REV. ARMAND P. M. DE CHARBONNEL.
all Upper Canada. At his death,
January 14, 1840, the Right Rev. Remigius Gaulin succeeded him.
On December 17, 1841, Toronto received its first Bishop in the
person of Right Rev. Michael Power, to govern the western part of
the Province. At his death on October 1, 1847, the Right Rev.
Armand F. M. De Charbolanel governed the Diocese till April 26,
1860, when he resigned and joined the Capuchins at Lyons, France.
He died March 25, 1891. Before his resignation, February
17, 1856, Hamilton and London were erected into Dioceses, with the
Right Rev. John Farrell as the first Bishop of the former and
Bishop P. A. Pinsonneault, of the latter Diocese. Bishop
Pinsonneault moved his seat to Sandwich, February 2, 1859. In
1869 the seat was again moved to London.
Bishop Farrell died Sept. 26, 1873, and
was succeeded by the Right Rev. P. Crinnon, former pastor of
Stratford, till he died April 19, 1874, when the