James Tompkins - Career Highlights

Career Highlights

  • 1895, Graduates from St. Francis Xavier University
  • 1897-1902, Attends Urban College in Rome
  • 24 May 1902 Ordained in the Lateran Basilica, Rome by Pietro, Cardinal Respighi
  • 1902 Rejoins staff at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish
  • 1907-1908, vice-rector, St. FX
  • 1908-1923, vice-president and prefect of studies, St. FX
  • 1919, Awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Dalhousie University
  • 1 January 1923, becomes parish priest (pastor) of Star of the Sea (then called Stella Maris) Church, Canso, including the towns of Little Dover and Queensport
  • 10 October 1934, becomes chaplain at Bethany, the motherhouse of the Sisters of Saint Martha, Antigonish
  • 10 March 1935-23 December 1948, parish priest of St. Joseph's Church, Reserve Mines, Cape Breton
  • 1948 Retires due to ill health and lives at St Martha's Convent in Margaree Forks, Nova Scotia.
  • 5 May 1953, Dies at St. Martha's Hospital and is buried in Reserve Mines.

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