Placide Louis Chapelle
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Archbishop Placide Louise Chapelle (August 28, 1842, Fraissinet-de-Lozère, Lozère, France – August 9, 1905, New Orleans, United States) was a French Roman Catholic archbishop.
Biography[]
Chapelle was ordained a priest in June 1865. He was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Santa Fe, and was ordained a bishop at the Baltimore Cathedral on November 1, 1888. He was consecrated by Cardinal James Gibbons. In 1894, he became the ordinary of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. He was appointed by Leo XIII to the Archdiocese of New Orleans concurrently from December 1897. The following year he became apostolic delegate in Cuba and Puerto Rico and the extraordinary envoy in the Philippines.[1]
Chapelle's mission in the Philippines was particularly difficult due to the Philippine–American War. His knowledge of English, Spanish and French, and his excellent knowledge of the American constitution, allowed him to render great service to the Holy See. He perished of yellow fever.
References[]
- ^ Gerardo Alberto Hernández-Aponte, La Iglesia Católica en Puerto Rico ante la invasión de Estados Unidos de América. Lucha, sobrevivencia y estabilización: (1898–1921). Segunda edición, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia y Decanato de Estudios Graduados e Investigación (DEGI) de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, 2013, pp. 189–190.
External links[]
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- 1842 births
- 1905 deaths
- People from Lozère
- French expatriates in the United States
- Roman Catholic archbishops of New Orleans
- Roman Catholic archbishops of Santa Fe
- Apostolic Nuncios to the Philippines
- Apostolic Nuncios to Cuba
- 19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United States
- French Roman Catholic priests
- French expatriates in Cuba
- French expatriates in the Philippines
- 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United States