Bathurst and in 1 908 he was named Vicar General of che Chatham Diocese. In 1913 Father O'Leary was appointed Bishop of Charlottetown and was consecrated at Sacred Heart Church, Bathurst. He was just 34. Among his involvements here were the rebuilding of the burned cathedral, the construction of a new orphanage, the founding of the Sisters of Saint Martha, improvements at the Charlottetown Hospital and updating at College, including its becoming a university. In 1920 Bishop O'Leary was appointed Archbishop of Edmonton. In helping to build up the pioneer West he attracted twenty-three Prince Edward Islanders to become priests of that archdiocese. Archbishop O'Leary died in Victoria, B.C . on March 5, 1938. His funeral took place in the yet unfinished St. Joseph's Cathedral, Edmonton with burial in St. Joachim's Cemetery there. Bishop Louis O'Leary (1920-1930)_______________ Louis was born at Richibucto in 1877. After graduating from St. Joseph's College, Memramcook he studied at the Grand Seminary of Montreal and then in Rome where he was ordained in 1900 for the Diocese of Chatham. He continued his studies there and received doctorates in theology and canon law. Back home, Father O'Leary was secretary to the bishop and chancellor of the diocese. In 1914 he was named auxiliary bishop of Chatham and was consecrated in St. Michael's Cathedral there. On the death ofthe Bishop of Chatham in 1920, Bishop O'Leary became administrator ofthe diocese. In 1 920 Bishop O'Leary was appointed Bishop of Charlottetown to succeed his brother, Bishop Henry. On the Island he supervised the gradual expansion of University and assisted the Sisters of Saint Martha in becoming officially a congregation by a formal decree in 1923. The diocese celebrated its centennial in 1929, a year which welcomed to Charlottetown the Sisters ofthe Precious Blood and the Redemptorist Fathers. In that year, too, the cathedral was raised to the dignity of a basilica. Bishop O'Leary died in Dayton, Ohio on July 8, 1 930. Funeral Mass was celebrated in St. Dunstan's Basilica with burial in the Catholic Cemetery , Parkdale . 36 * Our Bishops