Louis-François Richer Laflèche

**Louis-François Laflèche** (4 ga Satumba, 1818 - 14 ga Yuli, 1898) ya kasance bishop na Katolika na diocese na Trois-Rivières, a lardin Quebec, Kanada .

## Rayuwa ta farko da aiki
An haifi Laflèche a ranar 4 ga Satumba, 1818, a ƙauyen Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade ga Louis-Modeste Richer dit Laflèches da Marie-Anne Richer ditLaflèche (née Joubin dit Boisvert).  Iyalinsa suna da sunan Laflèche saboda kakanninsu, Jean Richer, ya fito ne daga wani yanki a Faransa da ake kira La Flèche, kusa da Anjou . Kakarsa daga gefen mahaifiyarsa Métis ce.

Laflèche ta yi karatu a Kwalejin Nicolet Seminary a Nicolet, Lower Canada, daga 1831 zuwa 1839. Bayan karatunsa, ya koyar da litattafai da kimiyya yayin da yake ci gaba da darussan tauhidin. An naɗa shi firist a ranar 7 ga Janairu, 1844. 

A shekara ta 1844, ya jagoranci aikin kusa da Kogin Red na Arewa. A matsayinsa na mai wa'azi a ƙasashen waje Oblate Laflèche ya ilimantar da kansa a cikin harsuna uku na 'yan asalin Amurka da ake magana a Yankin Arewa maso Yamma: Cree, Chipewyan,  da Anishinaabe . Shi ne na farko da ya rage yaren Chipewyan zuwa nau'in nahawu.

A cikin 1845, Cif Factor Roderick McKenzie ya rubuta wa Bishop Joseph-Norbert Provencher, na Diocese na Arewa maso Yamma, don neman kafa manufa a Île-à-la-Crosse .  A cikin 1846, Oblate firist Alexandre-Antonin Taché da Laflèche sun kafa aikin Saint-Jean-Baptiste a Île-à-la-Crosse . Ofishin Jakadancin ya zama tushe ga tafiye-tafiye masu yawa na Taché zuwa Green Lake, Reindeer Lake, Portage La Loche, da Fort Chipewyan. A cikin 1849, Provencher ya tuno da Laflèche zuwa Saint Boniface, yana da niyyar sanya shi coadjutor. Laflèche ya ki amincewa da matsayin, yana jayayya da rashin lafiya. Provencher ya zaɓi Taché. Yayinda Bishop Taché mai taimakawa yanzu ya ci gaba da aikinsa na mishan, Laflèche ya yi aiki a matsayin vicar janar na diocese da mai gudanarwa a lokacin da Bishop Provencher bai kasance ba.

A shekara ta 1851 ya bi Métis buffalo hunters na Ikklisiya na St. François Xavier mai nisan kilomita 25 a yammacin St. Boniface. Kungiyar farauta ta kunshi maza 67 na Métis, mata da yawa da suka zo don shirya nama, wasu kananan yara da karusai 200. A Arewacin Dakota sun haɗu da ƙungiyar Sioux. Lafleche, ya yi ado da baƙar fata, fararen surplice, kuma ya sata, ya jagoranci tare da kwamandan sansanin, Jean Baptiste Falcon, karewa game da kimanin 2,000 Sioux mayakan, a yakin Grand Coteau (North Dakota). Bayan kewaye na kwana biyu (Yuli 13 da 14), Sioux sun janye, sun gamsu cewa Babban Ruhu ya kare Métis.&nbsp;

Lokacin da ya koma Kanada a shekara ta 1856, ya koyar da lissafi, ilimin taurari, da falsafar a Kwalejin Nicolet Seminary . An nada shi shugaban kwalejin a shekara ta 1859.

## Diocese na Trois-Rivières
A shekara ta 1866, Bishop Thomas Cook na Trois-Rivières ya zaɓi Laflèche ya zama abokin aikinsa. A shekara mai zuwa, an ɗaukaka shi ya zama shugaban diocese na Anthedon . A shekara ta 1869, ya albarkaci sabon cocin Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade . Yayinda yake halartar Majalisar Vatican ta farko a 1870, an nada shi Bishop na Trois-Rivières . Ya yi amfani da ikonsa da tasirinsa don tsoma baki a cikin al'amuran Lardin New Brunswick a cikin ƙoƙari na murkushe dokar Common Schools Act na 1871 wanda ya haifar da rabuwa da coci da jihar a cikin tsarin ilimi na New Brunsick.

Laflèche ya rubuta kundin biyar na wasiƙu na fastoci da ayyuka biyu game da addini a cikin iyali da kuma tattaunawa game da nau'in Humanum. A shekara ta 1885, Leo XIII ya raba diocese dinsa, kuma an tilasta masa ya bi wannan aikin kuma ya sauka daga mukaminsa. Bayan wannan, ya shiga cikin Tambayar Makarantu ta Manitoba daga 1890 zuwa 1896, yana neman taimakon Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau da Wilfrid Laurier. An bayyana damuwarsa a cikin littafin Affari Vos na 1897.

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