Edmund Burke (bishop)

Mgr Edmund Burke (1753-1820) was the apostolic Vicaire of Nova Scotia of 1817 with 1820.

Born in 1753 in the County from Kildare in Ireland, it was ordered in 1781 and arrived at Quebec on May 16th, 1787 after seven last years to Ireland.

He was successively professor with the Séminaire of Quebec, cleaned Saint-Pierre and of the St. Lawrence, island of Orleans, 1791 to 1794, and missionary with Halifax, then in the Niagara, in 1797.

In 1794-1795, it left on mission official to Détroit in Michigan for pacification Miamis raised against the US government (1794-1795);

It was named in Rome by Pie VII, the July 4th 1817, bishop of Sion In partibus, and first apostolic vicar for Nova Scotia, and was devoted in the cathedral of Quebec, by Mgr J. - O. Plessis, on July 5th, 1818.

He died in Halifax, on December 1st, 1820, 67 years old

References

general Repertory of the Canadian clergy, by chronological order since the foundation of the colony until our days, by Mgr Cyprien Tanguay, Montreal, Eusèbe Senécal & wire, printers and publishers, 1893.
biographical Dictionary of the clergy Canadian-French, Jean-Baptist-Arthur Allaire, Montreal: Printing works of the Catholic school of deaf-mute, 1908-1934.

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