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LOUIS-GUILLAUME-VALENTIN DUBOURG

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Second Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Bishop of Montauban, Archbishop of
Besançon, b. at Cap François, Santo Domingo, 16 February, 1766; d. at Besançon,
France, 12 December, 1833. His theological studies were made at Paris, where he
was ordained in 1788 and entered the Company of Saint Sulpice. He was superior
of the seminary of Issy when the French Revolution broke out, and retired at
first to Bordeaux. In 1794 he emigrated to the United States where he was
welcomed by Bishop Carroll. He was president of Georgetown College from 1796 to
1799. After an unsuccessful trip to Havana where he attempted to open a school,
he returned to Baltimore and became the first superior of Saint Mary's College.



On 18 August, 1812, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of
Louisiana and the Floridas to succeed Bishop Peñalvar y Cardenas promoted (1801)
to the archiepiscopal See of Guatemala. The position was by no means an easy one
and Father Dubourg was forced, at the beginning of his administration to take up
his residence outside New Orleans. However, he gradually overcame his opponents.
On 28 January, 1815, on the threshold of the New Orleans cathedral, he bestowed
on General Jackson the laurels of victory.

After settling in a satisfactory way the affairs of the diocese Father Dubourg
proceeded to Rome where he was consecrated Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas,
24 September, 1815. He returned to America in 1817 and took up his residence in
St. Louis where he founded a theological seminary and college at "The Barrens".
He also founded the St. Louis Latin Academy which developed into the present
well-known St. Louis University. The Religious of the Sacred Heart
simultaneously opened their first American convent, St. Charles's Academy
(1818), and soon after a second one at Florissant. These institutions gave a
great impulse to religion in what was then known as Upper Louisiana. The bishop
visited yearly the southern part of his diocese, and when Bishop Rosati was
appointed his coadjutor, New Orleans became again his residence. In 1826 Bishop
Dubourg went again to Europe. He was a brilliant and learned man, but was
reluctant to enforce his authority against the cathedral trustees who
continually opposed him; therefore he tendered his resignation of the See of New
Orleans (November, 1826), thinking that another incumbent would be more
successful.

He was not, however, allowed to live in retirement, but was transferred, 2
October, 1826, to the Diocese of Montauban; then on 15 February, 1833, he was
promoted to the archiepiscopal See of Besançon. Archbishop Dubourg was one of
the first patrons and beneficiaries of the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith, but was not, as has been said, its founder. This society was organized at
a meeting held at Lyons by the Abbé Inglesi, Bishop Dubourg's vicar-general, but
the chief rôle in its creation is due to a pious woman of Lyons, Pauline-Marie
Jaricot.




SOURCES

     SHEA, History of the Catholic Church in the United States (New York, 1890),
III, passim; IDEM, The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the United States
(New York, 1886); GUASCO, L'Œuvre de la Propagation de la Foi (Paris); MEMBER OF
THE ORDER OF MERCY, Vie de M. Emery (Paris).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Chambon, C. (1909). Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg. In The
Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05178c.htm

MLA citation. Chambon, Célestin. "Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg." The
Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05178c.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by WGKofron. With
thanks to St. Mary's Church, Akron, Ohio.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor.
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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