Religious Leader. A teacher in Quebec, he joined Reformer priest Charles Chiniquy, the Organizer and First Overseer of the Christian Catholic Community Church at St. Anne (Kankakee), Illinois. Trained by him at St. Anne (1883 to 1884), he was sent to Wisconsin where he organized and led many churches and missions in Brown, Door and Kewaunee Counties. Ordained priest in 1885, he was elected first Bishop Ordinary of the Church at a Synod held at Duval (Kewaunee), Wisconsin, and was consecrated in the historical Apostolic Succession of the Holy See of Antioch (Syriac) on May 29, 1892, by permission of Patriarch Ignatius Peter III. His Episcopal See was first at Duval, then in Green Bay (1895). It was transfered to Canada in 1900. Bishop Vilatte was a renowned preacher, an inspiring leader, and published books and papers on the subjects of theology, liturgy and church history.
Religious Leader. A teacher in Quebec, he joined Reformer priest Charles Chiniquy, the Organizer and First Overseer of the Christian Catholic Community Church at St. Anne (Kankakee), Illinois. Trained by him at St. Anne (1883 to 1884), he was sent to Wisconsin where he organized and led many churches and missions in Brown, Door and Kewaunee Counties. Ordained priest in 1885, he was elected first Bishop Ordinary of the Church at a Synod held at Duval (Kewaunee), Wisconsin, and was consecrated in the historical Apostolic Succession of the Holy See of Antioch (Syriac) on May 29, 1892, by permission of Patriarch Ignatius Peter III. His Episcopal See was first at Duval, then in Green Bay (1895). It was transfered to Canada in 1900. Bishop Vilatte was a renowned preacher, an inspiring leader, and published books and papers on the subjects of theology, liturgy and church history.
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