biography
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Dubourg, Louis William (Valentine)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1766–1833)
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| biography:
| Missionary bishop, born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. After studying and teaching in France, where he was ordained a Sulpician (1788), he went to the USA (1794) where he became president of Georgetown College (1796–9) and superior of the Sisters of Charity. As Bishop of Louisiana (from 1815) he played a key role in the infancy of American Catholicism. He returned to France in 1826. |
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