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The Right Reverend Pierre-Paul Durieu OMI
Bishop of New Westminster

Archdiocese	Vancouver
Installed	1890
Term ended	1899
Predecessor	Louis-Joseph d'Herbomez
Successor	Augustin Dontenwill
Other post(s)	Titular Bishop of Marcopolis (1875–1890)
Orders
Ordination	11 March 1854 by Eugène de Mazenod
Consecration	24 October 1875 by Louis-Joseph d'Herbomez
Personal details
Born	(1830-12-03)December 3, 1830 Saint-Pal-de-Mons, Haute-Loire, France
Died	June 1, 1899(1899-06-01) (aged 68) New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Buried	St. Mary's Mission, Yakima Valley, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	French
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Motto	Pauperes evangelizantur—justus ex fide vivit. (The good news is preached to the poor. The just man lives by faith.)

Pierre-Paul Durieu OMI (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ pɔl dyʁjø]; December 3, 1830 – June 1, 1899), was a Roman Catholic missionary and the first Bishop of New Westminster, in British Columbia, Canada.

Life

Durieu was born in 1830 in Saint-Pal-de-Mons, the second son of Blaise Durieux and Mariette Bayle, a farming family who had sheltered the clergy during the French Revolution. As a boy, both he and his brother were allowed to study at the local minor seminary at Monistrol-sur-Loire. Pierre-Paul felt called to serve in the foreign missions and entered the novitiate of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Notre-Dame-de-l'Osier on 31 October 1848. He professed religious vows on 1 November of the following year. After that, he did his studies in preparation for Holy Orders at the Oblate seminary in Marseilles.

In 1854 Durieu was ordained as a priest by Eugène de Mazenod, the founder of his religious congregation, and, after being sent for further training in English and theology, was sent to join the Oregon Missions, where he was assigned to serve at St. Mary's Mission in the Yakima Valley and the Okanagan area of British Columbia. In 1875, Paul Durieu was consecrated as the coadjutor bishop for the Vicariate Apostolic of British Columbia by Louis-Joseph d'Herbomez, the Vicar Apostolic. Upon his death, Durieu became Vicar Apostolic, and later the first Bishop of New Westminster (which later became the Archdiocese of Vancouver).

During his tenure, Durieu commanded the First Nations people of British Columbia to obey four directives: discontinue performing native dances; cease the practice of potlach; cease consulting shamans; and to abstain from drinking and gambling. He wrote a book of biblical stories in Chinook Jargon in order to teach the Catholic faith to the native peoples under his care, and set up mission centers where they could keep their nomadic traditions but be reached by the missionaries. He attempted to secure treaties with the Canadian government to protect the rights of the peoples of the First Nations against the growing encroachments of the white settlers, to no avail.

Durieu died in 1899 and was buried alongside his predecessor at St. Mary's Mission.

The farming community of Durieu, northeast of Mission, B.C., is named after him.

References

"Pierre-Paul Durieu". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
"Former Bishops". Archdiocese of Vancouver. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
"Bishop Pierre-Paul Durieu, O.M.I.". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
Search in the Haute-Loire civil register (archives43.fr)

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Louis-Joseph d'Herbomez	Bishop of New Westminster 1890–1899	Succeeded by Augustin Dontenwill

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver

v t e Ordinaries of the Archdiocese of Vancouver
Apostolic Vicars of British Columbia	Louis-Joseph d'Herbomez Pierre-Paul Durieu
Bishops of New Westminster	Pierre-Paul Durieu Augustin Dontenwill
Archbishops of Vancouver	Augustin Dontenwill Neil McNeil Timothy Casey William Mark Duke Martin Michael Johnson James Carney Adam Exner Raymond Roussin J. Michael Miller
Auxiliary bishops, former	Edward Jennings Lawrence Sabatini
Bishops who served as priests in the Archdiocese	Gary Franken Richard Gagnon Gary Gordon Mark Hagemoen Stephen Jensen Peter Mallon David Monroe Joseph Phuong Nguyen
Catholicism portal The Diocese of New Westminster was elevated to the status of archdiocese and renamed as the Archdiocese of Vancouver in 1908.

v t e Churches in the Archdiocese of Vancouver
Cathedral	Holy Rosary Cathedral
Parishes	Church of the Assumption, Powell River Our Lady of Good Hope Church, Hope Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Coquitlam Sacred Heart Church, Vancouver St. Augustine's Church, Vancouver St. Mark's Church, Vancouver St. Mary's Church, Chilliwack St. Patrick's Church, Vancouver St. Paul's Indian Church, North Vancouver St. Peter's Church, New Westminster Sts. Peter & Paul's Church, Vancouver
Former parishes	Church of the Holy Cross, Skatin
Abbey	Westminster Abbey, Mission

v t e Education in the Archdiocese of Vancouver
Higher education	Catholic Pacific College Corpus Christi College St. Mark's College
Seminaries	Seminary of Christ the King
High schools	Archbishop Carney Regional Secondary School Holy Cross Regional High School Little Flower Academy Notre Dame Regional Secondary School St. John Brebeuf Regional Secondary St. John Paul II Academy St. Patrick Regional Secondary School St. Thomas Aquinas Regional Secondary School Traditional Learning Academy Vancouver College
Former	Convent of the Sacred Heart High School

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