Pierre-Paul Durieu
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| Motto | Pauperes evangelizantur—justus ex fide vivit. (The good news is preached to the poor. The just man lives by faith.) |
Pierre-Paul Durieu Roman Catholic missionary and the first Bishop of New Westminster, in British Columbia, Canada.
Life
Durieu was born in 1830 in
Marseilles
.
In 1854 Durieu was ordained as a priest by
Archdiocese of Vancouver
).
During his tenure, Durieu commanded the
biblical stories in Chinook Jargon
in order to teach the Catholic faith to the native peoples under his care, and set up mission centers where they could keep their nomadic traditions but be reached by the missionaries. He attempted to secure treaties with the Canadian government to protect the rights of the peoples of the First Nations against the growing encroachments of the white settlers, to no avail.
Durieu died in 1899 and was buried alongside his predecessor at St. Mary's Mission.
The farming community of
Mission, B.C.
, is named after him.
References
- "Pierre-Paul Durieu". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
- "Former Bishops". Archdiocese of Vancouver. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
- "Bishop Pierre-Paul Durieu, O.M.I.". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
- Search in the Haute-Loire civil register (archives43.fr)
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