Bishop Charles MacDonald (18,91 ',1_9..1_?)_,

Charles was a native ofSt. Andrew’s Parish, born in 1840. He attended the Central Academy and taught school awhile. Then he studied at St. Dunstan’s College and at the Grand Seminary of Montreal and was ordained at St, Dunstan’s Cathedral in 1873.

Father MacDonald was pastor of Georgetown and Cardigan for nine years and taught at St. Dunstan’s College ofwhich he was rector for seven years.

In 1890 Father MacDonald was named coadjutor Bishop of Charlottetown and was consecrated at St. Dunstan’s Cathedral. The Following year upon the death of Bishop Maclntyre he assumed the office ofdiocesan bishop. During his years as bishop there was a steady increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life, in the building ofchurches and in the founding of new parishes. One of the significant events ofhis episcopacy was the

construction ofthe magnificent stone cathedral.

During the last four years ofhis life Bishop MacDonald was effectively an invalid and on December 1, 1912 he died at his residence. Funeral Mass was celebrated in the new cathedral and his remains were interred in the cathedral crypt. Recently they were re-interred at St. Andrew’s, next to those of Bishop MacEachern.

Bishop Henry O’Leary (1913 - 1920) »

Henry was born at Richibucto, New Brunswick in 1879. After graduating from St. Joseph’s College, Memramcook, he studied at the Grand Seminary of Montreal and was ordained in his home parish in 1901 for the Diocese of Chatham.

Following ordination Father O’Leary was sent to Rome where he remained four years, obtaining doctorates in theology, philosophy and canon law. He then was pastor atjacquet River and at Sacred Heart,

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