Alexander Macdonell (bishop)

For other people with the same name, see Alexander Macdonell. Alexander Macdonell, ( July 17, 1762 –  14 January, 1840) was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Macdonell was born Alexander McDonell in Glengarry, Scotland, in 1762. After ordination at Valladolid, his life was devoted to his Gaelic kinsmen in Lochaber and Canada. When they were evicted in 1792 he led them to Glasgow and later formed them into a British regiment, the Glengarry Fencibles, being himself appointed their chaplain, the first Catholic British Army chaplain in centuries.
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