Claude Marie Dubuis was a French

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-born prelate

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 of the Roman Catholic Church

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. He served as Bishop of Galveston

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 from 1862 to 1892.

Dubuis was born in Coutouvre

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, Loire

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, and ordained

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 to the priesthood

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 at Lyon

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 on June 1, 1844. He came to the United States

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 at the invitation of Bishop Jean-Marie Odin

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 and labored for many years in the missionary

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 fields of Texas

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. On October 15, 1862, he was appointed Bishop of Galveston

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 by Pope Pius IX

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. He received his episcopal

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 consecration

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 on the following November 23 from Bishop Odin, with Bishops Armand de Charbonnel

Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel

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 and Jean Lyonnet serving as co-consecrators

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.

Dubuis saw the diocese through the turmoil of the Civil War

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, after which he established additional parishes

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, hospital

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s and schools

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. In 1881 he retired to his native France due to poor health, taking up residence at Vernaison

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. He resigned as Bishop of Galveston on December 16, 1892; he was named Titular Archbishop

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 of Arca in Armenia on the same date. He assisted Cardinal Pierre-Hector Coullié

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in episcopal work until his death at age 78.