Biografía
He was educated at the American Missionary Seminary of Louvain.
He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest on 31/05/1863.
He was sent as a missionary to Vancouver Island.
He was appointed as the second Roman Catholic Bishop of Victoria on 23/03/1873.
He was made the Archbishop of Oregon City in 1880.
He reverted to Bishop of Vancouver Island in 1885 and then made Archbishop in 1886. While on an expedition to Alaska he was murdered in Alaska on the banks of the Yukon River on 28/11/1886 by a demented white companion and was interred in St. Andrews Cathedral in Victoria BC on 28/11/1887.
Lugares nombrados
Mount Seghers (BC); Bishop's Mountain (AK)
Referencias
Wallace, W. Stewart (Ed.) 1978
