Louis Amadeus Rappe
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Louis Amadeus Rappe was a French-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the new Diocese of Cleveland in Ohio from 1847 to 1870.
The Right Reverend Louis Amadeus Rappe
Statue of Bishop Rappe outside St. John's Cathedral (2017)
St. John's Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio (2010)
Louis de Goesbriand
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Louis Joseph Marie Théodore de Goesbriand was a French-born prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Burlington in Vermont from 1853 until his death in 1899. His
Louis Amadeus Rappe
…of temperance. Rappe arranged for the School Sisters of Notre Dame to enter the diocese, building a convent and school for them. In 1842, Reverend Louis De Goesbriand was assigned to Rappe as an assistant. Contemporary accounts described Rappe as being genial and affable and as an enthusiastic catechism teacher for…
Bishop Louis de Goesbriand