Background
Rogers was born in Mountcharles, County Donegal, Ireland and emigrated with his family to Canada in 1831.
Rogers was born in Mountcharles, County Donegal, Ireland and emigrated with his family to Canada in 1831.
He was ordained a priest in Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 2, 1851 and was installed as Bishop of Chatham in 1860. Subsequently, this order also opened a convent in Chatham where they operated a hospital, a nursing home, a school for training nurses and an elementary and secondary school. Bishop Rogers attended the First Vatican Council where he opposed the declaration of papal infallibility.
His later years were overshadowed by growing tensions between French and Irish residents in his diocese.
