B.C.'s oldest priest

We were speculating in the office about the late Father John Chrysostom Brost, OSB, and whether he had been the oldest priest in the Archdiocese of Vancouver when he died at 98. We've now heard from Father Mark Dumont at Westminster Abbey, who is a walking encyclopedia of the Church, local and universal. He sends the following: "As far as I know, Father Chrysostom became the oldest priest in all of B.C. when Fr. J.J. Morelli died in Creston, B.C., in the Nelson diocese a couple of years ago.  When I told him that after the death of Fr. Morelli, he said, 'I can't help it.'"