Personality
Teacher · Missionary · Catholic priest · Catholic bishop · Academic administrator
📍 Birthplace Cap-Haïtien
January 10, 1766 – December 12, 1833
Haiti
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Louis William Valentine DuBourg was a French Catholic prelate and Sulpician missionary to the United States. He built up the church in the vast new Louisiana Territory as the Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas and later became the Bishop of Montauban and finally the Archbishop of Besançon in France.
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Career
- 1796President of Georgetown UniversityOffice
- 1799rectorOffice
- 1812apostolic administratorOffice
- 1815Bishop of Louisiana and the two FloridasOffice
- 1825vicar apostolicOffice
- 1826Bishop of MontaubanOffice
- 1833Roman Catholic Archbishop of BesançonOffice
Places
- Birthplace
- Cap-Haïtien
- Languages
- French, Spanish, English
Official links and sources
Information from
- Wikidata, Q3119626 (CC0)
- Photo: Unknown; John Gilmary Shea is the author of the book the image appears in, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons