Born in Bischwiller, Alsace, France, Augustin Dontenwell moved to the United States as a child, and joining the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, was ordained priest on May 30, 1885, by Bishop Thomas Duhamel in Ottawa. Canada.
Five years after his ordination he was assigned to teach at St. Louis College, located in New Westminster. Elected coadjutor to Bishop Pierre-Paul Durieu for the see of New Westminster on April 3, 1897, he received his episcopal consecration with the titular archbishopric see of Germanicopolis on the following August 22. Succeeding on June 1, 1899, during his tenure as bishop of New Westminster, he oversaw the building of Holy Rosary Cathedral and helped establish seven parishes in the diocese.
Promoted by Pope Pius X as the first archbishop of Vancouver on September 19, 1908, while at the general chapter meeting of the Oblate Order in Rome, at that same meeting he was elected superior general of the Order and was thus forced to resign his archbishopric just a few days after his appointment, being named to the titular see of Ptolemais in Phoenicia. He died in Rome on November 30, 1931, aged 74.
Five years after his ordination he was assigned to teach at St. Louis College, located in New Westminster. Elected coadjutor to Bishop Pierre-Paul Durieu for the see of New Westminster on April 3, 1897, he received his episcopal consecration with the titular archbishopric see of Germanicopolis on the following August 22. Succeeding on June 1, 1899, during his tenure as bishop of New Westminster, he oversaw the building of Holy Rosary Cathedral and helped establish seven parishes in the diocese.
Promoted by Pope Pius X as the first archbishop of Vancouver on September 19, 1908, while at the general chapter meeting of the Oblate Order in Rome, at that same meeting he was elected superior general of the Order and was thus forced to resign his archbishopric just a few days after his appointment, being named to the titular see of Ptolemais in Phoenicia. He died in Rome on November 30, 1931, aged 74.
Born in Bischwiller, Alsace, France, Augustin Dontenwell moved to the United States as a child, and joining the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, was ordained priest on May 30, 1885, by Bishop Thomas Duhamel in Ottawa. Canada.
Five years after his ordination he was assigned to teach at St. Louis College, located in New Westminster. Elected coadjutor to Bishop Pierre-Paul Durieu for the see of New Westminster on April 3, 1897, he received his episcopal consecration with the titular archbishopric see of Germanicopolis on the following August 22. Succeeding on June 1, 1899, during his tenure as bishop of New Westminster, he oversaw the building of Holy Rosary Cathedral and helped establish seven parishes in the diocese.
Promoted by Pope Pius X as the first archbishop of Vancouver on September 19, 1908, while at the general chapter meeting of the Oblate Order in Rome, at that same meeting he was elected superior general of the Order and was thus forced to resign his archbishopric just a few days after his appointment, being named to the titular see of Ptolemais in Phoenicia. He died in Rome on November 30, 1931, aged 74.
Five years after his ordination he was assigned to teach at St. Louis College, located in New Westminster. Elected coadjutor to Bishop Pierre-Paul Durieu for the see of New Westminster on April 3, 1897, he received his episcopal consecration with the titular archbishopric see of Germanicopolis on the following August 22. Succeeding on June 1, 1899, during his tenure as bishop of New Westminster, he oversaw the building of Holy Rosary Cathedral and helped establish seven parishes in the diocese.
Promoted by Pope Pius X as the first archbishop of Vancouver on September 19, 1908, while at the general chapter meeting of the Oblate Order in Rome, at that same meeting he was elected superior general of the Order and was thus forced to resign his archbishopric just a few days after his appointment, being named to the titular see of Ptolemais in Phoenicia. He died in Rome on November 30, 1931, aged 74.
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