Adélard Langevin

Louis Philippe Adélard Langevin (; August 23, 1855 – June 15, 1915) was a Canadian Oblate priest and Archbishop of Saint-Boniface. He founded the La Liberté newspaper published in Manitoba on May 20, 1913. He was the energetic leader of the Catholic struggle to restore language and religious rights in the Manitoba Schools Question.

Life Langevin was born in Saint-Isidore, near La Prairie, Lower Canada, one of sixteen children of François-Théophile and Marie-Paméla Racicot Langevin. In 1875 he entered the Sulpician Grand Séminaire de Montréal and then studied at Jesuit St. Mary's College, the English branch of the Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal.

Langevin joined the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Lachinein 1881, and was ordained a priest the following year by Monsignor Édouard-Charles Fabre, Bishop of Montreal. After his ordination, Langevin preached retreats and temperance crusades throughout the diocese of Montreal. He contracted smallpox during the epidemic of 1885.

Langevin became director of the major seminary in Ottawa and taught moral theology at the University of Ottawa.

He promoted the establishment of around twenty religious communities in its archdiocese. In 1898, Langevin asked the Soeurs de Misericorde from Montreal to assist unwed mothers. They opened, in 1900, a maternity hospital which later developed into Misericordia Health Centre.

He died at Montreal on June 16, 1915 and was buried in the St. Boniface Cathedral Cemetery.

Legacy The Rue Langevin in the Saint-Boniface area of Winnipeg is named for him.