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Louis Joseph Arthur Melanson was born at Trois-Rivières,
Quebec on March 25, 1879. His family soon moved to New Richmond,
near the Bay of Chaleur, across from New Brunswick.
Arthur Melanson studied theology at Rimouski and Montreal, but was refused
ordination by the Bishop of Rimouski because of his frail health.
After acceptance by the diocese of Chatham, New Brunswick, he was ordained
on July 9, 1905.
While pastor at Campbellton and faced with the lack of teachers for his
parish schools, he founded his own congregation of religious women, the
Daughters of Mary of the Assumption.
He was appointed Vicar General of Bishop Chiasson in 1930, and named the
second Bishop of Gravelbourg on November 21, 1932. Ordained Bishop
at Chatham on February 22, 1933, he was installed in Gravelbourg by
Archbishop McGuigan on March 9.
However,
when in 1936 the new Archdiocese of Moncton, New Brunswick was
established, Bishop Arthur Melanson was appointed its first
Archbishop.
Bishop Melanson took leave from Gravelbourg on February 9, 1937, to be
installed in Moncton on February 22.
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