Clergyman. French-Canadian Reformer and Christian Catholic Church Rector & Overseer. Famous author, he sold thousands of copies of his books, including The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Forty Years in the Church of Christ. Parish priest at Rivière-Boyer, Quebec City (1834) and Beauport (1838), where he founded the Temperance Society (1839). Also at Kamouraska, Quebec (1842). Temperance Preacher in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montreal, Quebec. In 1852, he founded a parish church at St. Anne, Illinois. Turned into a Community Church in 1858. Church society organized under the name Christian Catholic Church. Ministry was extended to the Michigan French-Canadian colony of Muskegon and later to Wisconsin under the Rev. Rene Vilatte trained by Fr. Chiniquy and elected first bishop. The congregation at St. Anne IL joined the Presbyterian Church and the Christian Catholic Church tradition was continued by Bishop Vilatte and successors. Rev. Chiniquy received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) from the Presbyterian College at McGill University, Montreal.
Clergyman. French-Canadian Reformer and Christian Catholic Church Rector & Overseer. Famous author, he sold thousands of copies of his books, including The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Forty Years in the Church of Christ. Parish priest at Rivière-Boyer, Quebec City (1834) and Beauport (1838), where he founded the Temperance Society (1839). Also at Kamouraska, Quebec (1842). Temperance Preacher in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montreal, Quebec. In 1852, he founded a parish church at St. Anne, Illinois. Turned into a Community Church in 1858. Church society organized under the name Christian Catholic Church. Ministry was extended to the Michigan French-Canadian colony of Muskegon and later to Wisconsin under the Rev. Rene Vilatte trained by Fr. Chiniquy and elected first bishop. The congregation at St. Anne IL joined the Presbyterian Church and the Christian Catholic Church tradition was continued by Bishop Vilatte and successors. Rev. Chiniquy received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) from the Presbyterian College at McGill University, Montreal.
