Maxime Decelles (30 April 1849 – 7 July 1905) was a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop. He was the 5th Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe.[1]

Maxime Decelles
Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe
DioceseSaint-Hyacinthe
Installed1901
Term ended1905
PredecessorLouis-Zéphirin Moreau
SuccessorAlexis-Xyste Bernard
Other post(s)Coadjutor Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (1893-1901)
Personal details
Born(1849-04-30)30 April 1849
Died7 July 1905(1905-07-07) (aged 56)

Life

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Maxime Decelles was born in Saint-Damase-sur-Yamaska , Saint-Hyacinthe county , April 30, 1849 to François and Apolline Coderre-Lacaillade Decelles. He was educated at Saint-Hyacinthe Seminary and ordained at Iberville July 21, 1872 by Bishop Charles La Rocque.[2]

He was first assigned to Saint-Denis,and then Beloeil. In 1875, Bishop Louis-Zéphirin Moreau made Decelles titular canon of the Cathédrale Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur. He resigned the canonry in 1880 and assumed charge of the church at Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu. In 1889, he was assigned to the larger parish of St. Peter's at Sorel.[2]

Decelles was appointed coadjutor to Moreau and consecrated titular bishop of Druzipara on 9 March 1893. He continued as pastor at St. Peter's, and in 1898, on the Feast of St. Anne (July 26), led a pilgrimage by steamer from Sorel to the shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré.[3]

The elderly Moreau left external administration and tiring visits to his coadjutor. He died on 24 May, 1901 and Decelles succeeded as bishop. [4]

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  1. ^ "Cinquième évêque de Saint-Hyacinthe (1901-1905)" (in French).
  2. ^ a b Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Descelles, Maxime" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  3. ^ Annals of Sainte Anne de Beaupre, 1898, p. 131
  4. ^ Choquette, Charles. "Saint Hyacinthe." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 23 February 2023   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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