Richard Gilmour
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Richard Gilmour was an American Catholic prelate who served as the second Bishop of Cleveland from 1872 until his death in 1891.
The Right Reverend Richard Gilmour
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.
Richard Gilmour
…In 1869, he was appointed pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Dayton, where he remained until becoming a bishop. Following the resignation of Bishop Louis Amadeus Rappe from the Diocese of Cleveland in 1870, the bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati submitted a terna, or list of three candidates, to…
The Right Reverend Louis Amadeus Rappe
Statue of Bishop Rappe outside St. John's Cathedral (2017)
St. John's Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio (2010)