Charles Chiniquy

The Reverend

Charles Chiniquy
The Reverend; Charles Chiniquy
Temperance Apostle; ; Pastor of the; "First Presbyterian Church of St. Anne";
Church	Catholic Church (1809-58); Presbyterianism (1858-99); └─ Orange Order; └─ PCUSA; └─ PCC
Diocese	Quebec (1832-47); Montréal (1847[?]-52); Chicago (1851-58)
Other posts	Founder of the Temperance Society, Beauport (1839)
Previous posts	Catholic Priest in Canada Curate of St. Charles Parish (1833-34), and St. Roch Parish (1834-38), Quebec; Vicar of Beauport (1838-42) and Kamouraska (1842-47); Temperance Preacher (1847-52); Missionary in Kankakee County, Illinois, USA;
Orders
Ordination	18 May 1832; (as Catholic deacon); by Joseph Signay; ; 21 September 1833; (as Catholic priest); by Joseph Signay; 1 February 1860; (as Presbyterian minister);
Laicized	1858 (left the Catholic Church)
Personal details
Born	Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy; 30 July 1809; Kamouraska, Lower Canada, British Empire; (now in Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada)
Died	16 January 1899 (aged 89); Montreal, Quebec,; Post-Confederation Canada (now Canada)
Buried	Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 45°30′34″N 73°35′49″W / 45.50940229637065°N 73.59699046093925°W
Parents	Marie-Reine Perreault (mother); Charles Chiniquy (father)
Spouse	Euphémie Allard (m. 1864)
Children	3
Occupation	Clergyman, Writer
Education	Doctor of Divinity (D.D.)
Alma mater	Nicolet Seminary; ; Grand Séminaire,; Quebec City;
Motto	"Ye are all brethren, the children of God"

Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (30 July 1809 – 16 January 1899) was a Canadian socio-political activist and former Catholic priest who left the Catholic Church and converted to Protestant Christianity, becoming a Presbyterian minister. He later rode the lecture circuit in the United States, denouncing the Catholic Church. His themes were that Catholicism was pagan, that Catholics worship the Virgin Mary, and that its theology was anti-Christian.

Chiniquy founded the St. Anne Colony, a village located in Kankakee County, Illinois in 1851. Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, an extensive autobiographical account of his life and thoughts as a priest in the Catholic Church, was written by Chiniquy and published in 1886. He warned of plots by the Vatican to take control of the United States by importing Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and France, and suggested that the Vatican was behind the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.