The Second Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Ottawa, Monsignor Charles Hugh Gauthier was born in Alexandria, Upper Canada, of French Canadian and Scottish parentage. Ordained priest on August 24, 1867, he lectured rhetoric at the Regiopolis College of which he also served as director. Parish priest of Saint Mary's parish in Williamstown, he spent eleven years there, during which period he opened a new parish at nearby Glen Nevis, which he also administered, constructed a new rectory in Williamstown and built mission churches in Lancaster and Martintown.
Elected archbishop of Kingston by Pope Leo XIII, he received his episcopal consecration on October 18, 1898 from Archbishop Joseph-Thomas Duhamel assisted by Bishops Henry Gabriels and Richard Alphonsus O’Connor. Named archbishop of Ottawa on September 6, 1922, during his tenure he approved the construction of various church buildings and erected new parishes. He died in office of uremia at the Hôpital Général d'Ottawa at 2.35 am., and was laid to rest at the Notre-Dame Basilica.
Elected archbishop of Kingston by Pope Leo XIII, he received his episcopal consecration on October 18, 1898 from Archbishop Joseph-Thomas Duhamel assisted by Bishops Henry Gabriels and Richard Alphonsus O’Connor. Named archbishop of Ottawa on September 6, 1922, during his tenure he approved the construction of various church buildings and erected new parishes. He died in office of uremia at the Hôpital Général d'Ottawa at 2.35 am., and was laid to rest at the Notre-Dame Basilica.
The Second Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Ottawa, Monsignor Charles Hugh Gauthier was born in Alexandria, Upper Canada, of French Canadian and Scottish parentage. Ordained priest on August 24, 1867, he lectured rhetoric at the Regiopolis College of which he also served as director. Parish priest of Saint Mary's parish in Williamstown, he spent eleven years there, during which period he opened a new parish at nearby Glen Nevis, which he also administered, constructed a new rectory in Williamstown and built mission churches in Lancaster and Martintown.
Elected archbishop of Kingston by Pope Leo XIII, he received his episcopal consecration on October 18, 1898 from Archbishop Joseph-Thomas Duhamel assisted by Bishops Henry Gabriels and Richard Alphonsus O’Connor. Named archbishop of Ottawa on September 6, 1922, during his tenure he approved the construction of various church buildings and erected new parishes. He died in office of uremia at the Hôpital Général d'Ottawa at 2.35 am., and was laid to rest at the Notre-Dame Basilica.
Elected archbishop of Kingston by Pope Leo XIII, he received his episcopal consecration on October 18, 1898 from Archbishop Joseph-Thomas Duhamel assisted by Bishops Henry Gabriels and Richard Alphonsus O’Connor. Named archbishop of Ottawa on September 6, 1922, during his tenure he approved the construction of various church buildings and erected new parishes. He died in office of uremia at the Hôpital Général d'Ottawa at 2.35 am., and was laid to rest at the Notre-Dame Basilica.
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