Charles-François Bailly de Messein

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Charles-François Bailly de Messein, (4 November 1740 – 20 May 1794), was the coadjutor bishop of the diocese of Quebec

Bailly de Messein was designated coadjutor for Bishop Hubert in 1788 by his friend, Governor Carleton.

Born with Varennes, county of Verchères, November 11, 1740, of François-Auguste Bailly de Mossein and Marie-Anne Of-goutin, it made her studies with Louis-the-Large college in Paris in France and with seminar of Quebec, where it was ordered by Mgr Briand, March 10, 1767. Missionary for all it News-Scotland (1707-1771), where it was vicar-general of évêque of Quebec (1768-1771), it exerted the functions of professor of rhetoric with seminar of Quebec (1771-1775), chaplain of a royalist regiment at the time of the invasion, on southernmost bank of the St. Lawrence river, in the surroundings of Lévis (1775-1776). In 1776-177, he is a professor of theology to the seminar of Quebec; then it is cleaned Pointe-with-Tremble-of-Quebec (1777-1794), of which it was absent 1778 to 1782 to be the tutor of the children of Lord Dorchester in London in England He is then missionary with the Squirrels (1777-1778, 1782-1786, 1793-1794); coadjutor of the bishop of Quebec under the title of bishop of Capso (1789-1794), elected on 26 September 1788 and crowned in Quebec by Mgr Hubert July 12, 1789; deceased in Quebec, May 20, 1794; buried in Point-with-Tremble-of-Quebec.

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Biographical dictionary of the clergy Canadian-French, Jean-Baptist-Arthur Allaire, Montreal: Printing works of the catholic School of deaf-mute, 1908-1934.