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Louis Dubourg
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Second Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Archbishop of Besancon, born Cap Francois, Santo Domingo, 1766; died Besancon, France, 1833. Ordained in Paris in 1788 he entered the Society of Saint Sulpice. As superior of the seminary at Issy he withdrew to Bordeaux during the Revolution and in 1794 went to the United States. He was president of Georgetown College from 1796-1799, and founded Saint Mary's College in Baltimore, acting as its first president. In 1812 he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Louisiana and the Floridas, which had been under the jurisdiction of Bishop Carroll after the accession of Louisiana to the United States in 1801, the first bishop having been the Spaniard, Right Reverend Louis Pefialver y Cardenas. In 1815 the administrator celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving for the victory of General Jackson over the British, greeting the general at the door of the New Orleans cathedral. Consecrated bishop in Rome, September 24, 1815, he took up his residence in Saint Louis, and having brought out several Vincentians from Rome he established a seminary under their charge at "The Barrens," about 80 miles from Saint Louis. In 1818 the Religious of the Sacred Heart made their first foundation in America, at Saint Charles, moving soon after to Florissant, where the Jesuits also were established in 1823. He was the founder of the Saint Louis Latin Academy, the nucleus of the present Saint Louis University. After the appointment of Right Reverend Joseph Rosati as coadjutor, with residence in Saint Louis, in 1823, Bishop Dubourg established himself at New Orleans. He resigned his difficult see in 1826, discouraged by the opposition of trustees. He had organized about twenty parishes. He was transferred to the Diocese of Montauban, France, and named Archbishop of Besancon in 1833. He had a share in the organization in 1822 of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, founded, 1820, by Venerable Pauline Jaricot of Lyons.
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Entry for 'Louis Dubourg'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/l/louis-dubourg.html. 1910.
