1. Jean-Charles Prince was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, teacher, seminary administrator, editor, and Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada from 1852 to 1860.
13 Facts About Jean-Charles Prince
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Jean-Charles Prince was born 13 February 1804 at Saint-Gregoire, Lower Canada to Jean and Rosalie Bourg Prince.
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Jean-Charles Prince attended the minor Seminaire de Nicolet from 1813 to 1822, when he began his studies for the priesthood.
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Jean-Charles Prince taught rhetoric and the humanities while still a seminarian.
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Father Jean-Charles Prince was appointed chaplain of Saint-Jacques Cathedral, Bishop Lartigue's cathedral seat.
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In 1831, Jean-Charles Prince was made director of the major seminary, the College de Saint-Hyacinthe, a position he held until 1840.
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Jean-Charles Prince supervised the expansion of the establishment, which took the name of Seminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in 1833.
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Jean-Charles Prince was obliged to assert on more than one occasion that the institution was entirely neutral.
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Jean-Charles Prince remained in charge of the newspaper until November 1843.
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Jean-Charles Prince helped to train the novices who were to form the Daughters of Charity, Servants of the Poor, and was chief chaplain to the Congregation of Notre-Dame and the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph of the Hotel-Dieu in Montreal.
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Jean-Charles Prince assisted the foundation of the Sisters of Providence and the Convent of the Good Shepherd.
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Jean-Charles Prince accompanied a group of Hospitallers to Kingston, Upper Canada, at the request of the bishop there, Remi Gaulin.
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Bishop Jean-Charles Prince brought the French Sisters of the Presentation of Mary and the Dominicans to his diocese.