Remi De Roo [SEP] position held
Remi De Roo
Remi De Roo (born February 24, 1924) is a retired Canadian Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained a priest on June 8, 1950, and consecrated a bishop on December 14, 1962, he was the Bishop of Victoria until he retired on March 18, 1999. He was born in Swan Lake. This makes him Canada’s longest-serving Catholic bishop.
De Roo has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin philosophy from the Collège de Saint-Boniface (University of Manitoba). In
influenced by an advocate of indigenismo, Moisés Sáenz, who earned a doctorate in education from Columbia University and had held a position in the Calles administration in the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP). Although initially an assimilationist for Mexico's indigenous, he shifted his perspective after a period of residence in a Purépecha village, which he published as "Carapan: Bosquejo de una experiencia". He came to see indigenous culture as having value. Sáenz advocated for educational and economic reforms that would better the indigenous, and this became