Rupert Seidenbusch was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Minnesota

Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud is a Roman Catholic diocese in Minnesota. It was founded on September 22, 1889, out of territory that had been evangelized by the missionary priest Father Francis Xavier Pierz...

 1875-1888.

Born in Munich

Munich

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, Germany

Germany

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, Seidenbusch was ordained a priest in the Benedictine order on June 22, 1853. On February 12, 1875, Pope Pius IX

Pope Pius IX

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appointed Seidenbusch bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Minnesota and he was ordained bishop on May 30, 1875. On October 18, 1888, he retired due to ill health.