Jean-Jacques Lartigue
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His Excellency, the Right Reverend Jean-Jacques Lartigue, S.S. |
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| Bishop of Montréal | |
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| Diocese | Montréal |
| Installed | 13 May 1836 |
| Term ended | 19 April 1840 |
| Successor | Bishop Ignace Bourget |
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| Ordination | 21 September 1800 |
| Consecration | 21 January 1821 by Archbishop Joseph-Octave Plessis |
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| Born |
June 20, 1777 Montreal, Province of Quebec, Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Died | April 19, 1840 (aged 62) Montreal, Lower Canada, United Kingdom |
| Buried |
Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Jacques Larthigue & Marie-Charlotte Cherrier |
| Alma mater | Grand séminaire de Montréal |
Jean-Jacques Lartigue, S.S., (June 20, 1777 – April 19, 1840) was a Canadian Sulpician, who served as the first Catholic Bishop of Montreal.
Lartigue was born to a noted Montreal family, the only son of Jacques Larthigue, a surgeon, and Marie-Charlotte Cherrier. He attended the Collège Saint-Raphaël (later the Petit Séminaire de Montréal), followed by two years at an English school run by the Sulpicians, receiving a solid education. He then clerked for three years with a Montreal law firm where he developed a lifelong interest in the politics of Lower Canada. In this he followed the example of his three uncles who were members of the Canadian legislature, including Joseph Papineau and Denis Viger.
In 1797, Lartigue gave up a promising career in the legal profession and turned toward the Catholic priesthood. The following year, he renounced He soon received minor orders and later the diaconate from Bishop Pierre Denaut of Quebec and taught at his former school, while he studied for the priesthood under the Sulpicians.
On 21 September 1800, Lartigue was ordained a priest by Bishop Denaut at the Church of Saint-Denis on the banks of the Richelieu River, where another uncle was the pastor. Denaut then appointed him as his secretary. Lartigue helped not only in the administrative affairs of the diocese, but in the pastoral duties at Longueuil, the residence of the bishop where he also served as the local pastor. Despite his poor health, he made pastoral visits on behalf of the bishop to the Maritimes, part of the diocese, where no bishop had visited since the late 17th century.
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