LANGEVIN, LOUIS-PHILIPPE-ADÉLARD. - Archbishop, b. 23 Aug. 1853 at St-Isidore (Canada), d. 15 June 1915 at Montréal. In 1881 he became an Oblate of Mary Immaculate; in 1882, a priest; professor of theology at the Oblate University in Ottawa; in 1893, parish priest at Winnipeg; and in 1894, Archbishop of St-Boniface.
He tirelessly waged the struggle against the unjust school legislation of the province of Manitoba and insisted upon the right of the Franco-Canadians to their language. For the very numerous immigrants (the number of Catholics rose from 29,000 in 1895 to more than 100,000 in 1915), he erected 80 new parishes, always aiming to safeguard the natural rights of the various nationalities to their own churches and priests. For the Ruthenians he secured priests of their rite, their own schools, and a newspaper. He built the new cathedral of St-Boniface. He developed the Catholic schools by calling in other religious institutes and by founding the Oblates of the Sacred Heart and of Mary Immaculate.