Augustin-Magloire Blanchet
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The Most Reverend Augustin-Magloire Blanchet |
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| Bishop of Nesqually | |
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| Diocese | Nesqually |
| Installed | 1850 |
| Term ended | 1879 |
| Predecessor | Inaugural bishop |
| Successor | Egidius Junger |
| Other posts | Bishop of Walla Walla, Oregon Country (1846–1850) |
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| Born |
22 August 1797 St. Pierre Riviere de Sud, Lower Canada |
| Died | 25 February 1887 (aged 89) Vancouver, Washington Territory |
| Buried | Holyrood Catholic Cemetery, Shoreline, Washington |
Augustin Magloire Alexandre Blanchet (22 August 1797 – 25 February 1887) was a French Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest who served as the first bishop of the now-defunct Diocese of Walla Walla and of the Diocese of Nesqually (now known as the Archdiocese of Seattle). Along with his elder brother and several other fellow French Canadian missionaries, Blanchet was instrumental in establishing the Catholic Church presence in the present-day U.S. state of Washington.
Augustin Magloire Blanchet was born in the village of St. Pierre Riviere de Sud, in present-day Quebec. The younger brother of François Norbert Blanchet, Augustin Blanchet studied at Le Petit Séminaire de Québec and then at the Grand Seminary of Quebec. He was ordained to the priesthood on 3 June 1821 in the Archdiocese of Quebec and held several church positions in Quebec and Nova Scotia, mainly around the Montreal area.
On 28 July 1846, while a canon in Montreal, Blanchet was appointed bishop of the new Diocese of Walla Walla in the Oregon Country (now in the U.S. state of Washington). Blanchet was to follow his brother, who had gone to the Oregon Country in 1838 to set up a Catholic church presence there, and was the bishop of the Diocese of Oregon City (now the Archdiocese of Portland).
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