Modeste Demers

His Excellency, the Most Reverend Modeste Demers
Bishop of Vancouver Island
Province	Oregon City
Diocese	Vancouver Island
Appointed	July 28, 1846
Installed	November 30, 1847
Term ended	July 28, 1871
Successor	Charles John Seghers
Orders
Ordination	February 7, 1836 by Joseph Signay
Consecration	November 30, 1847 by François Norbert Blanchet
Personal details
Born	(1809-10-11)October 11, 1809 Saint-Nicholas-de-Lévis, Lower Canada (present-day Quebec)
Died	July 28, 1871(1871-07-28) (aged 61) Victoria, British Columbia
Buried	St. Andrew's Cathedral
Nationality	Canadian
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Parents	Michel Demers & Rosalie Foucher
Education	Séminaire de Québec

Modeste Demers (11 October 1809 – 28 July 1871) was a Roman Catholic Bishop and missionary in the Oregon Country.^[1] A native of Quebec, he traveled overland to the Pacific Northwest and preached in the Willamette Valley and later in what would become British Columbia.