- 15 - CHAPTER IV The diocese did not long remain widowed for on the 8th of May 1860 the Rev. Peter McIntyre Was precognized Bishop of Charlottetown and on the l5th of August of that year was consecrated in St. Dunstan's Cathedral, where the ’Rev. James Rogers was on the same day consecrated Bishop of the new diocese of Chatham. New Brunswick. The subjoined account of the ceremony is taken from the Charlottetown Examiner of August 21st 1860. Consecration of the Bishops of Charlottetown and Chatham This important event, as announced in our last no; took place in St. Dunstan's Cathedral on Wednesday the l5th instant, being the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. It was the first ceremony of the kind ever witnessed in this Island and consequently attracted much attention. Besides the very numerous attendance of Catholics from all parts of the colony, anxious to witness the eleVation to the episcOpal dignity of the amicable and indefatigable priest who is to be their chief pastor, many respectable Pwotestants were present on the interesting occasion. Theveather was the most favorable that could be desired, and contributed, no doubt,to swell the large attendance which occupied the Cathedral on Wednesday from an early hour until the close of the ceremonies. I‘About half past nine o'clock the high dignitaries of

the church and other ecclesiastics left the Episcopal

Palace, lately fitted up in sumptous style for his Lordship. Dr. McIntyre, and preceded by the Processional and Archiepiscopal crosses. all vested in their appropriate robes. walked in procession to the Cathedral in nearly

the following order :-