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Roman Catholic missionaries in New France

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The list Roman Catholic missionaries in New France includes François de Laval, Ahuntsic (Missionary), Chrétien Le Clercq, Louis Hennepin and Zenobius Membre. The list consists of 25 members and 1 sublist.
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    François de Laval
    First Roman Catholic bishop of Québec (1623–1708)
    François de Laval
    Overview: Saint Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval (30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708), was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec, appointed when he was 36 years old by ...
    Date of birth: 30 April 1623
    Date of death: 6 May 1708
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Religion
    Gender: Male
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    18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in New France 8T
    17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in New France 2T
    Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada 119T
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    Marie Guyart
    French Roman Catholic saint
    Marie Guyart
    Overview: Marie of the Incarnation, OSU (28 October 1599 – 30 April 1672) was a French Ursuline nun. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France (Quebec) to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the ...
    Date of birth: 28 October 1599
    Date of death: 1672
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Linguist
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    Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada 119T
    Immigrants to New France 38T
    Canonizations by Pope Francis 64T
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    Chrétien Le Clercq
    French writing system inventor
    Overview: Chrestien Le Clercq, O.M.R., (born 1641) was a Recollect Franciscan friar and missionary to the Mi'kmaq on the Gaspé peninsula of Canada in the mid-17th century. He was a chronicler of New France, who ...
    Date of birth: 1641
    Age: 383
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Linguist
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    17th-century French Roman Catholic priests 63T
    Mi'kmaq in Canada 35T
    Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada 119T
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    Louis Hennepin
    Belgian explorer and missionary
    Louis Hennepin
    Overview: Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, (12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollet order (French: Récollets) and an explorer of ...
    Date of birth: 12 May 1626
    Date of death: 5 December 1705
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Explorer
    Gender: Male
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    Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada 119T
    French explorers of North America 50T
    Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States 171T
  • 5.
    Overview: Antoine Davion was originally from Saint-Omer in Artois, France. He served in various churches on the Île d'Orléans in Québec before departing for the Mississippi River in 1698 to help establish missions ...
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    Louis-Pierre Thury
    French missionary (secular priest)
    Overview: Louis-Pierre Thury (c. 1644, Notre Dame de Breuil en Auge (Department of Calvados), France-June 3, 1699, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a French missionary (secular priest) who was sent to North America during ...
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    Dominique Marie Varlet
    French bishop (1678-1742)
    Dominique Marie Varlet
    Overview: Dominique-Marie Varlet (15 March 1678 in Paris – 14 May 1742 in Rijswijk) was a French prelate and missionary of the Catholic Church who served as vicar general of the Diocese of Quebec. Later, as the ...
    Date of birth: 15 March 1678
    Date of death: 14 May 1742
    Age: 64 (age at death)
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    Ahuntsic (Missionary)
    Huron converted by French missionary
    Ahuntsic (Missionary)
    Overview: Ahuntsic (died June 25, 1625) was an understudy and associate of the French Recollet missionary to the Hurons, Nicolas Viel, in the 1620s. As they were accompanied by three Huron Indians, both were famously ...
    Date of death: 25 June 1625
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    Deaths by drowning in Canada 30T
    Converts to Roman Catholicism from pagan religions 58T
    Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada 120T
  • 9.
    Overview: Marc Bergier (c.– November 9, 1707) was a Roman Catholic priest and vicar general of the Bishop of Quebec, Saint-Vallier La Croix, for the Mississippi Region.
    Date of death: 1707
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    Zenobius Membre
    French Franciscan Recollect friar and missionary
    Overview: Zenobius Membré, O.M.R. (1645 – c.1687), was a French Franciscan Recollect friar and missionary in North America.
    Date of birth: 1645
    Date of death: 1687
    Age: 41 (age at death)
    Occupation: Explorer
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    17th-century French Roman Catholic priests 63T
    Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada 119T
    Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States 171T
  • 11.
    Overview: Jean Dolbeau, O.M.R., (12 March 1586 – 9 June 1652) was a Recollect friar, one of the four Recollects who were the first Catholic missionaries to northern New France, present day Canada. Dolbeau-Mistassini ...
    Date of birth: 1586
    Date of death: 1652
    Age: 65 (age at death)
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    Nicolas Viel
    French, Educator
    Nicolas Viel
    Overview: Father Nicolas Viel, O.M.R., (died 25 June 1625) was a French Recollect missionary to the Hurons from 1623 to 1625.
    Date of death: 25 June 1625
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Male
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    17th-century French Roman Catholic priests 63T
    Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada 119T
    French Franciscans 33T
  • 13.
    Overview: Jean Baudoin (1662–1698) was a French Sulpician priest who served as a missionary in Acadia, and later as a chaplain during military expeditions carried on by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville.
    Date of birth: 1662
    Date of death: 1698
    Age: 35 (age at death)
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    Overview: Denis Jamet, O.M.R., (or Denis Jamay) (died February 26, 1625 in Montargis, France) was a French Recollect friar and Catholic priest and the first superior of the Canadian mission (1615).
    Date of death: 1625
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    Overview: Joseph Le Caron, O.M.R., (c. 1586 near Paris – March 29, 1632 in Gisors, France) was one of the four pioneer missionaries of Canada, (together with Father Denis Jamet, Father Jean Dolbeau, and Brother ...
    Date of birth: 1586
    Date of death: 1632
    Age: 45 (age at death)
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    René de Bréhant de Galinée
    17th century French missionary in North America
    Overview: René Bréhant de Galinée was a member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (Sulpician Order) at Montreal and an explorer and missionary to the Native Americans. In 1670, he and François Dollier de Casson were ...
    Date of birth: 1645
    Date of death: 16 August 1678
    Age: 33 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
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    Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada 119T
    Sulpician missionaries 8T
    Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States 171T
  • 17.
    Overview: René-Charles de Breslay (June 1658 – 4 December 1735) was born and educated in France where he spent a number of years as “gentleman in waiting of the privy chamber of the king”. Following this period ...
    Date of birth: 1658
    Date of death: 1735
    Age: 76 (age at death)
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  • 18.
    Overview: François Picquet (4 December 1708 – 15 July 1781) was a French Sulpician priest who emigrated to Montreal, Canada, in 1734.
    Date of birth: 4 December 1708
    Date of death: 15 July 1781
    Age: 72 (age at death)
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    Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada 119T
    Sulpician missionaries 8T
    Immigrants to New France 38T
  • 19.

    Joseph de La Roche Daillon
    French Catholic missionary
    Overview: Joseph de La Roche Daillon (died 1656, Paris) was a French Catholic missionary to the Huron Indians and a Franciscan Récollet priest. He is best remembered in Canada as an explorer and missionary, and ...
    Date of death: 1656
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    Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada 119T
    Immigrants to New France 38T
    Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States 171T
  • 20.
    Overview: François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon (1641–1679) was a Sulpician missionary in New France. He was ten years older than his half-brother, François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai.
    Date of birth: 1641
    Date of death: 1679
    Age: 37 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
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