Maxime Decelles
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Maxime Decelles (30 April 1849 – 7 July 1905) was a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop. He was the 5th Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe.{{cite web|url=http://www.diocese-st-hyacinthe.qc.ca/dio-ae-decellesm.htm|title=Cinquième évêque de Saint-Hyacinthe (1901-1905)|language=French}}
Life
Maxime Decelles was born in Saint-Damase-sur-Yamaska, Saint-Hyacinthe county, April 30, 1849 to François and Apolline Coderre-Lacaillade Decelles. He was educated at Saint-Hyacinthe Seminary and ordained at Iberville July 21, 1872 by Bishop Charles La Rocque.{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Descelles, Maxime}}
He was first assigned to Saint-Denis, and then Beloeil. In 1875, Bishop Louis-Zéphirin Moreau made Decelles titular canon of the Cathédrale Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur. He resigned the canonry in 1880 and assumed charge of the church at Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu. In 1889, he was assigned to the larger parish of St. Peter's at Sorel.
Decelles was appointed coadjutor to Moreau and consecrated titular bishop of Druzipara on 9 March 1893. He continued as pastor at St. Peter's, and in 1898, on the Feast of St. Anne (July 26), led a pilgrimage by steamer from Sorel to the shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré.[https://books.google.com/books?id=3yo8wzxVOjgC&dq=Bishop+Maxime+Decelles&pg=PA131 Annals of Sainte Anne de Beaupre, 1898, p. 131]
The elderly Moreau left external administration and tiring visits to his coadjutor. He died on 24 May 1901 and Decelles succeeded as bishop.[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13351b.htm Choquette, Charles. "Saint Hyacinthe." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 23 February 2023 {{PD-notice}}
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External links
- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdecelles.html Catholic-Hierarchy profile]
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Category:20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada
Category:Roman Catholic bishops of Saint-Hyacinthe
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