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From Sulpice + -ian. So called after the parish of St. Sulpice in Paris, of which the founder, Jean Jacques Olier, was pastor in 1643.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sulpician
Today it means: One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry, and later introduced into Canada and the United States. Full definition →