Archdiocese of Santa Fe
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The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is a Catholic archdiocese in the southwestern region of the United States in the state of New Mexico. While the mother church of the archdiocese, the Cathedral Basilica of
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
Archdiocese of Santa Fe
Kachina dolls used in Puebloan religious ceremonies (1894)
Bishop Zubiría (pre-1863)
Jean-Baptiste Lamy
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Jean-Baptiste Lamy, was a French-American Catholic prelate 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 care
Archdiocese of Santa Fe
…Pius IX erected the Vicariate Apostolic of Santa Fe, which included all of the New Mexico Territory, its remaining parts of Texas and Arizona. He named Jean-Baptiste Lamy, a French cleric, as the vicar apostolic. Lamy arrived in Santa Fe in 1851. However, Juan Felipe Ortiz, administrator of the Catholic Church in New…
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Bronze statue of Lamy in front of St. Francis Cathedral