Jean baptiste salpointe arizona biography

  • Jean-Baptiste Salpointe was a French-born prelate who serve as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in New Mexico in the United States from 1885 to.
  • He was an assistant in the parish of LeCendre when Bishop Purcell came to ask for missionaries for his Ohio diocese.
  • In the year before his death, Salpointe had the satisfaction of seeing a large part of his old Vicariate Apostolic achieve juridical autonomy as the.

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    Biographies and memoirs of French-speaking dock and women in the Southwest – California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and beyond – on the Santa Fe Trail and other emigrant and trader trails, and in northern Mexico

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    Abreu, Jesus Gil
    (On the Santa Fe Trail and in New Mexico)
    Daves, Doyle. Jesus Gil Abreu, Santa Fe Trail Traveler and Man of Affairs in Territorial New Mexico. Las Vegas Citizens’ Committee

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    Jean-Baptiste Lamy

    French Catholic bishop in the United States

    Jean-Baptiste Lamy (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃batistlami]; October 11, 1814 – February 13, 1888), was a French-American Roman Catholicprelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career (albeit renamed to "Jean-Marie Latour" for artistic license), as is Paul Horgan's nonfiction work Lamy of Santa Fe. He sometimes anglicised his name to John Baptist Lamy.

    Early life

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    Lamy was born in Lempdes, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France, 10 km east of the main regional city of Clermont-Ferrand. He completed his classical studies in the minor seminary at Clermont and theological coursework in the Major seminary at Montferrand, where he was trained by the Sulpician Fathers (Society of Saint-Sulpice).

    Career

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    He was ordained a priest on December 22, 1838.[1] After a few mo

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    Jean-Baptiste Salpointe

    Catholic bishop (1825–1898)

    Jean-Baptiste Salpointe (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃batistsalpwɛ̃t]; February 22, 1825 – July 15, 1898) was a French-born prelate who serve as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in New Mexico in the United States from 1885 to 1894.

    Salpointe previously served as vicar apostolic of the Arizona Territory from 1868 to 1885.

    Early life and education

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    Salpointe was born in Saint-Maurice-près-Pionsat, Puy-de-Dôme, France, to Jean and Jeanne (née Mandigon) Salpointe. He received his preparatory education in a school in Agen and studied the classics at the College of Clermont in present-day Clermont-Ferrand, France. He subsequently studied philosophy and theology in the Grand Seminary of Montferrand in Montferrand, France.

    Salpointe was ordained a priest on December 20, 1851, and in 1859 he volunteered to come to the New Mexico Territory in the United States as a missionär.

    Priesthood

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    In 1860, S