Napoléon-Joseph Perché
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Archbishop Napoléon-Joseph Perché (1805-1883) was the third Archbishop of New Orleans (1870-1883). The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
is the second-oldest diocese in the present-day United States.
A native of Angers, France; ordained a priest at Beaupreau, France, in 1829; served in the Dioceses of Angers (1829-1837) and Bardstown [Louisville], Kentucky (1837-1842); transferred to Diocese of New Orleans in 1842 where he served as chaplain to the Ursuline
nuns of New Orleans Ursuline Convent and founded the first diocesan newspaper, Le Propagateur Catholique, in 1842; consecrated titular Bishop of Abdera and Coadjutor Archbishop of New Orleans at New Orleans in 1870; succeeded to the Archbishopric of New Orleans twenty-four days later; died in New Orleans in 1883.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, officially in Latin Archidioecesis Novae Aureliae, is an ecclesiastical division of the Roman Catholic Church administered from New Orleans, Louisiana...
is the second-oldest diocese in the present-day United States.
A native of Angers, France; ordained a priest at Beaupreau, France, in 1829; served in the Dioceses of Angers (1829-1837) and Bardstown [Louisville], Kentucky (1837-1842); transferred to Diocese of New Orleans in 1842 where he served as chaplain to the Ursuline
Ursulines
The Ursulines are a Roman Catholic religious order for women founded at Brescia, Italy, by Saint Angela de Merici in November 1535, primarily for the education of girls and the care of the sick and needy. Their patron saint is Saint Ursula.-History:St Angela de Merici spent 17 years leading a...
nuns of New Orleans Ursuline Convent and founded the first diocesan newspaper, Le Propagateur Catholique, in 1842; consecrated titular Bishop of Abdera and Coadjutor Archbishop of New Orleans at New Orleans in 1870; succeeded to the Archbishopric of New Orleans twenty-four days later; died in New Orleans in 1883.