DUBOURG, LOUIS-GUILLAUME-VALENTIN

DUBOURG, LOUIS-GUILLAUME-VALENTIN. — Second bishop of Louisiana and Florida, born at Cap François (S. Domingo) on 16 February 1766, died at Besançon on 12 December 1833. Ordained a priest in Paris in 1788, he entered the Society of Saint-Sulpice. The Revolution compelled him to emigrate to the United States (1794). He was rector of Georgetown College from 1796 to 1799, in which year he became the first superior of St. Mary’s College in Baltimore. Appointed apostolic administrator of Louisiana and Florida on 18 August 1812, he reorganized the diocese, of which he was appointed bishop. Consecrated in Rome on 24 September 1815, he returned to the United States in 1817. In 1826 he left the United States and was appointed bishop of Montauban; he remained there until his appointment as archbishop of Besançon (25 February 1833).