ended death_date consecration other_post nationality article_title birth_date alt alma_mater death_place image diocese name caption enthroned consecrated_by predecessor birth_place buried parents type successor religion see province ordination archbishop_of
may 11 , 1876 08 june 1885 july 25 , 1837 coadjutor archbishop of marcianopolis bishop of montreal titular bishop of telmesse titular canadian ignace bourget
 30 october 1799 a vestments . seated elderly man in roman catholic priest 's grand séminaire de québec sault-au-récollet , montreal , quebec , canada ignace bourget as archbishop.jpg montreal ignace bourget bishop ignace bourget in 1882 april 23 , 1840 jean-jacques lartigue , s.s. jean-jacques lartigue , s.s. lévis , province of lower canada , british empire mary , queen of the world cathedral . pierre bourget & thérèse paradis bishop edouard charles fabre roman catholic montreal quebec november 30 , 1822 bishop of montreal
ignace bourget

ignace bourget -lrb- october 30 , 1799 -- june 8 , 1885 -rrb- was a french-canadian roman catholic priest who held the title of bishop of montreal from 1840 to 1876 .
born in lévis , quebec in 1799 , bourget entered the clergy at an early age , undertook several courses of religious study , and in 1837 was named co-adjutor bishop of the newly created bishopric of montreal .
following the death of jean-jacques lartigue in 1840 , bourget became bishop of montreal .
during the 1840s , bourget led the expansion of the roman catholic church in quebec .
he encouraged the immigration of european missionary societies , including the oblates of mary immaculate , the jesuits , the society of the sacred heart and the good shepherd sisters .
he also established entirely new religious communities including the sisters of charity of saint-hyacinthe , sisters of saint anne , sisters of providence , and the institute of misericordia sisters .
he commissioned the construction of st james cathedral , known today as mary , queen of the world cathedral , and played a key role in the establishment of the université laval and the hospice of the holy child jesus .
bourget was a fierce ultramontanist , supporting the supreme authority of the pope in matters both secular and spiritual .
he frequently clashed with the canadian secular authorities , most notably through his attacks on the anti-clericist institut canadien de montréal , his defence of parochial schooling in new brunswick , and his refusal to grant a catholic burial to excommunicant joseph guibord .
in 1876 , facing an inquiry by the vatican into his increasing involvement in secular politics , bourget resigned as bishop of montreal and retired to sault-au-récollet , where he continued to take an active role in church life until his death in 1885 .
