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Alexander Macdonell, (
July 17,
1762 –
14 January,
1840) was the first
Roman Catholic bishop of
Kingston,
Upper Canada,
Canada.
Macdonell was born
Alexander McDonell in
Glengarry,
Scotland, in 1762. After
ordination at
Valladolid, his life was devoted to his
Gaelic kinsmen in
Lochaber and
Canada. When they were evicted in 1792 he led them to
Glasgow and later formed them into a British regiment, the
Glengarry Fencibles, being himself appointed their
chaplain, the first
Catholic British Army
chaplain in centuries.
When the regiment was disbanded Father Macdonell appealed to the government to grant its members a tract of land in Canada, and in 1804 160,000 acres (650 km²) were provided in what is now
Glengarry county, Canada. Father Macdonell accompanied his clan, founded churches and schools and organised the settlement. In
1812 he raised another regiment, the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles which went to the defence of Upper Canada. In
1819 he was made vicar Apostolic of Upper Canada, which in 1826 was erected into a
bishopric. Five years later he was appointed to the
legislative council. He founded a
seminary at Saint Raphael's and a college at Kingston, and by his zealous labours merited the title of apostle of
Ontario.
Macdonell died in
Dumfries,
Scotland, of
pneumonia.
In
1962, a Catholic secondary school in
Guelph, Ontario, Canada was renamed to
Bishop Macdonell Catholic High School in his honour.
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