Christian Catholic Church Society - Gatineau,Qc
Christian Catholic Church Society - Gatineau,Qc
Welcome to Christian Catholic Church Society
P.O. Box 2043Station HullGatineau, Qc J8X 3Z2
Canada613-738-2942
Staff / Leaders
President Bishop S.A. Theriault, Ph.D., Th.D. , M.Past., D.Ch Send an Email...
Vice-President Rev. Jean Venne, M.Comm, L.Th., D.Chr.
Director Rev. Robert Butterworth, S.P.B.
Director Rev. Willard G. Dionne, MA, L.Th., D.Chr.
Weekly Schedule
Soli Deo Honor & Gloria
CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH SOCIETY ORGANIZED & FIRST BOARD OF TRUSTEES ESTABLISHED (1859)
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CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC RITE OF COMMUNITY CHURCHES (CCRCC)HTTP://CCRCC.CA
(Transcription from the original document kept in Kankakee District Court, Illinois)
State of Illinois
Kankakee County
At a meeting of the (French-Canadian) inhabitants of St. Ann in Kankakee County, State of Illinois, on the 3rd day of September 1859, in ( ) of a former notice given at the Chapel of the Christian Catholic Church of St. Ann, for the purpose of organizing a religious society,
- on a motion of Reverend Charles Chiniquy, seconded by Désiré Drolet, Louis Mercier was unanimously elected President;
- on a motion of Moise Langelier, seconded by Michel Drolet, Georges Gauthier was elected Secretary;
- on a motion of Joseph Martin, seconded by Anselme Robillard, it was unanimously resolved that this society be known and designated as the Christian Catholic Church;
- on a motion of Abraham Pelletier, seconded by Achille Chiniquy, it was unanimously resolved that there be elected for the government and management of this said Church Society, ten trustees, whose term of office shall last for one year from this day and until their successors in office shall have been elected by this said Society;
- on a motion of Magloire Desmarteaux, seconded by Louis Mercier, the following persons were proposed and unanimously elected for the management and direction of the Christian Catholic Church:
Reverend Charles Chiniquy,
Michel Allais,
Louis Mercier,
Anselme Robillard,
Thomas Lortie,
Moise Langelier,
Abraham Pelletier,
Joseph Martin,
Michel Drolet,
Achille Chiniquy.
The above named persons having accepted the said office of trustees have hereunto set their hands and seal: Charles Chiniquy, Anselme Robillard, Louis Mercier, Moise Langelier, Abraham Pelletier, Michel Drolet, Joseph Martin, Michel Allais (being absent has not signed).
Louis Mercier, President.
Achille Chiniquy, Secretary.
REVEREND CHINIQUY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, on the 10th day of September 1859, the Reverend Charles Chiniquy was unanimously elected President.
FILED FOR RECORDS IN KANKAKEE COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, ILLINOIS
Subscribed and sworn before me this 13th day of September 1859.
Philip Worchester, Clerk
INTERDENOMINATIONAL FRENCH-SPEAKING MINISTRY SUPPORTED BY THE PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNION (1860-1884)
Extension of the ministry to the French-Canadian settlement of Muskegon, Michigan (1860-1861). The Rev. Romuald Desroches was ordained and appointed pastor.
Communion and collaboration agreement concluded with the Presbyterian Church, including partnership in the French-Canadian (Interdenominational) Missionary Society (FCMS). The FCMS, founded in 1840, came under the French-speaking Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in 1875. The Rev. Chiniquy was asked the same year to oversee the work of FCMS and moved from St. Ann, Illinois, to Montréal, Québec, Canada.
J. René Vilatte, a teacher with Hull School Board in Western Quebec, joined with Rev. Chiniquy in FCMS in 1880, and assisted Rev. E.D. Pelletier at St. John's Church in St. Hyacinthe, Québec. Chosen for missionary work outside Quebec, he was sent to McGill University, to be trained in the FCMS ministerial program offered by the Presbyterian College (under Prof. Daniel Coussirat and others). Following this, he was trained at St. Anne, IL, by Fr. Chiniquy (1883-1884) and sent to Wisconsin, to work as missionary among Belgians and French-Canadians of Brown County. He also served as Pastor of Église du Calvaire in Green Bay. The Rev. Chiniquy went to support his ministry in the month of October, and held successful evangelization services in Brown, Door and Kewaunee counties.
SECOND CHURCH BOARD & THE SOCIETY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD (1885-1889)
Organized in Wisconsin, with centre in Little Sturgeon (Door County), dedicated to the Good Shepherd. Centre moved to Gardner, in Precious Blood Church rectory in July 1886.
President and Church Overseer: The Rev. J. René Vilatte
Secretary-Treasurer: Jerome Pelletier
Directors: David Laviolette, Louis Robillard, Henri Neville...
Other church/mission centres in Brussels, Desert, Duvall, Green Bay, Marinette, Sturgeon Bay, Valin...
Under the authority of the Board, was organized the Society of the Precious Blood (S.P.B.)on July 1, 1887. Under the aegis of the S.P.B. the Christian Catholic ministry was extended to the Counties of Brown, Door and Kewaunee, Wisconsin, as well as to other American States and to Canada (Ontario & Quebec). They used the Swiss Christian Catholic Prayer Book and Catechism in French that Father Vilatte had brought with him from Europe, following his ordination to the priesthood in Berne, on June 7, 1885.
Contacts with Swiss Christian Catholics had been initiated through Père Hyacinthe Loyson, at the request of Rev. Chiniquy. A Parisian reformer, Père Hyacinthe was a great preacher, like Père Chiniquy, and had been rector of the Christian Catholic Church of St. Germain in Geneva. The S.P.B. was led by Father Jean-Baptiste Gauthier in 1889, following his ordination in Berne, on October 26.
Both Rev. Gauthier and Rev. Vilatte received theological training at the Christian Catholic Faculty of the University of Berne, under celebrated Prof. Dr. Eugène Michaud. Both had joined the Chiniquy Movement in Montreal, in 1880.
THIRD CHURCH BOARD, THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC (COMMUNITY) CHURCH (ACC) & BISHOPS C.F. DURAND & O'NEILL CÔTÉ'S EPISCOPATE (1889-1980)
Organized in Duval, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, to put in place the French-speaking Episcopal & Synodal jurisdiction called for by the Duval Assembly and Faith & Order Declaration (Sketch of Belief) of November 16, 1889. The assembly was held in St. Mary's Church, Duval, Kewaunee County.
Summary of the Faith & Order (Duval) Declaration of 1889. Approved summary which has been in use in the Church since the General Synod of August 8, 1983 held in Hull, Quebec:
We are a covenanted community of persons (Art. 1) based on the Holy Scripture (Art. 2), the Nicean & St. Athanasius Creeds (Art. 3) and the definitions of the accepted General Councils of the Undivided Church (Art. 4). We celebrate the seven sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Penance, Holy Eucharist, Holy Matrimony, Holy Orders and Annointing of the Sicks (Art. 5). We are a society of believers who has Christ our Lord as its Leader and Source of its sanctity (Art. 6). We see the historic Episcopate as necessary for our church life. Minister of the sacraments of Confirmation and Holy Orders, the Bishop is also the centre of unity, the guardian of the deposit of the faith and the defender of the catholic tradition (Art. 7). Holy pictures and statues can be used for devotion but not for worship. This practice is not necessary for justification nor for salvation (Art. 8). The saints are venerable and can be invoked for inspiration and wisdom, but our Lord Jesus Christ is the only Mediator between God and humankind (Art. 9). Committing to the Church of Christ Uniting will erase our divisions and rebuild the undivided church (Art. 10).
Bishop Ordinary & President of the Board: Msgr. J. René Vilatte.
Elected by the Duval Assembly (1889), Bishop Vilatte was consecrated in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1892.05.29, by Syriac Orthodox Bishops Mar Julius (Colombo, Ceylon), Mar Athanasius (Kottayam, India) & Mar Gregorius (Niranan, India), canonized in 1947 and known as St. Gregory of Parumala.
Trustees: The Rev. Bernard Harding, S.P.B., Guillaume Barrette (Vice-President of the Board), Edouard de Bekker and Augustin Marchand
Church/mission centres in Wisconsin, Michigan, Massachusetts, Ohio, New York, Illinois and Canada.
Episcopal See transfered from Duval (St Marie Church) to Green Bay (St Louis Church) in 1895, and from Green Bay to Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Mission Parish of Notre Dame) in 1901.
Polish, Italian, Swedish and African American parishes and missions joined the ordinariate (diocesan structure) with the French-Canadians and the Belgians, under Bishop Vilatte's episcopal oversight. He consecrated bishops for them: +S. Kaminski (1898), +P. Miraglia-Gullotti (1900), +F. Lloyd (1915), +G.A. McGuire (1921)...
In 1909, he published a booklet called AN ORDER FOR APOSTOLIC REUNION IN AMERICA and championed the idea of creating a multi-ethnic Church Council & Bishops Conference, based on the Episcopal succession/ministry and the Faith & Order Declaration of the Duval Synod (1889). On January 1, 1910, the Council was organized with Msgr Vilatte as President and the Rev. (later Bishop) C.F. Durand as Secretary-Treasurer. It was incorporated in the State of Illinois in 1915, with headquarters in Chicago, under the name American Catholic Church.
Bishop Durand (1879-1957)oversaw the French-speaking ministry after Bishop Vilatte, from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was succeeded as leader of French-speaking Christian Catholics by Msgr O'Neill M. Côté in 1974.
Bishop Côté served in the leadership ministry, first as a mitred priest under Montreal Hungarian Christian Catholic Rector Bishop Thomas Fehervary; then as IIIrd Bishop Ordinary following his episcopal consecration in 1978. His parish, dedicated to Saint Stephen (in memory of first Montreal rector Étienne Côté, was located in Longueuil.
FOURTH CHURCH BOARD, QUEBEC RELIGIOUS CORPORATI0N & THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY CHURCHES
Under Bishop Côté's episcopate, the Church was incorporated by Letters Patent, under the Quebec Law on Religious Corporations and a fourth Board of Directors was elected on June 9, 1980. Church officers included:
Rev. S.A. Theriault, Marcel Raynault, Denys Gravelle, William Hancock and Luc Frioli.
In 1981, Bishop Côté retired from the ministry because of ill health and the Rector of St. Bernard's Church, Hull, was elected to succeed him as Bishop Ordinary, on November 14. He was consecrated on July 12, 1982, and the episcopal see was transfered from Longueuil to Hull. Bishop Theriault was enthroned as 4th Ordinary at the General Synod held in Hull, Quebec, on August 20, 1983.
Under Bishop Theriault's leadership, close links were established with the International Council of Community Churches and the Christian Catholic Church became a member unit in 1983. Church center is in Gatineau (Parish of St. Bernard & St. Gregory). Holy Eucharist at 10:30 AM on Sunday at City Hall Chapel, 25 Laurier. Visit our church website at the following address: HTTP://CCRCC.CA
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