Rémi Gaulin
Catholic bishop
Rémi Gaulin (30 June 1787 – 8 May 1857) was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop who spent time in the service of Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis. Plessis ordained Gaulin in 1811 and appointed him curate to Alexander MacDonell in Upper Canada. In 1815 he became a missioner in Nova Scotia. In 1840 he succeeded Macdonnell as bishop of the Diocese of Kingston.
Life
Rémi Gaulin was born 30 June 1787 in Quebec to François and Françoise Amiot Gaulin. His father was a cooper. Rémi Gaulin was the great-grandnephew of Antoine Gaulin, missionary to the Abenakis and Miꞌkmaq of Acadia and Nova Scotia. Rémi studied at the Séminaire de Québec and then at the Séminaire de Nicolet. In the summer of 1811, he accompanied Bishop Joseph-Octave Plessis, as secretary, on a pastoral visit to the Îles de la Madeleine and New Brunswick; and was ordained the following October.
Father Gaulin was assigned to assist Bishop Alexander Macdonell as a curate in Glengarry County in Upper Canada.
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