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 University of the Oblates in Ottawa, in 1893 parish priest at Winnipeg, in 1894 Archbishop of St-Boniface.
Untiringly he waged a struggle against the unjust school legislation of the province of Manitoba and insisted upon the right of French 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 established 80 new parishes, always aiming to safeguard the natural rights of the various nationalities to their own churches and priests. For the Ruthenians he procured 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 founding the Oblates of the Sacred Heart and of Mary Immaculate.