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Pope Benedict XV erected the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana on January 11, 1918, with territory taken from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans. The pope named Monsignor Jules Jeanmard of New Orleans as the first bishop of the new diocese. Jeanmard designated Saint John's Church in Lafayette as the cathedral.
On September 5, 2020, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana, led by Bishop John Douglas Deshotel, officially opened the cause for his beatification. He is the third candidate for canonization from the Lafayette Diocese, following Auguste Nonco Pelafigue (1888–1977), a layman, and Charlene Richard (1947–1959), a young girl.
Bishop. John Douglas Deshotel (born January 6, 1952) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana since 2016. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Dallas in Texas from 2010 to 2016.
The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist or La Cathédrale St-Jean, originally called l'Église St-Jean du Vermilion, is the cathedral and mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana. It was the first parish in Lafayette Parish —founded in 1821—and was designated cathedral upon the erection of the diocese in 1918 ...
The Most Reverend. Spoken style. Your Excellency. Religious style. Bishop. Charles Michael Jarrell (May 15, 1940) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana from 2002 to 2016. [1] Jarrell served as bishop of the Diocese of Houma–Thibodaux in Louisiana from 1993 to 2002.
Churchgoers thwarted a teenager armed with a rifle from entering a Louisiana church full of children Saturday in a service that was being livestreamed, authorities said. Police were called to St ...
The Rev. Clyde Grogan, now retired in the Catholic Diocese of Belleville, believes the Catholic Church has made improvements in the past 30 years on the handling of clergy sexual abuse but isn’t ...
Denomination. Roman Catholic. Parents. Jules and Frances Maria (née Brown) Jeanmard. Education. St. Joseph Seminary. Our Lady of Holy Cross College. Jules Benjamin Jeanmard (August 15, 1879 – February 23, 1957), was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Lafayette in Louisiana from 1918 to 1956.