- 15 - CHAPTER IY The diocese did not long remain widowed for on the 8th of Kay i 860 the Rev. Feter l*iclntyre was precognized Bishop of Charlottetown and on the 15th of August of that year was consecrated in St. IXinstan's Cathedral, where the Rev. James Rogers was on the seme day consecrated 3isaop of the new diocese of , New Brunswick . The subjoined account of the ceremony is taken from the Charlottetown Examiner of August 21st i 860. Consecration of the Bishops of Charlottetown and This important event, as announced in our last no; took place in St. Dunstan's Cathedral on Wednesday the 15th 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 Protestants 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. "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. Mclntyre , 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:-