Pascal Tosi

[citation needed] Tosi was born on 27 April 1837 in San Vito, a village near Santarcangelo di Romagna in northern Italy.

[citation needed] Tosi spent almost twenty years serving the indigenous peoples of Colville and Cheney, in the state of Washington, and Coeur d'Alène, Idaho.

[1] In 1886, Tosi and a French Jesuit, Louis Robaut, were commissioned to accompany Charles John Seghers, Archbishop of Victoria, on the first missionary expedition to northern Alaska.

[1] The two Jesuits were supposed to stay with the archbishop only on a temporary basis: the Society had no intention of opening a new field of missionary activity in Alaska.

He was succeeded both as Superior of the Alaska Mission and as Prefect Apostolic in March 1897[citation needed] by French Jesuit Jean-Baptiste René.