Antoine Blanc
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The Most Reverend Antoine Blanc |
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| Archbishop of New Orleans | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Archdiocese of New Orleans |
| See | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans |
| Installed | 19 June 1835 |
| Term ended | 20 June 1860 |
| Predecessor | Leo-Raymond de Neckere CM |
| Successor | Jean-Marie Odin CM |
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| Ordination | 22 July 1816 by Cardinal Joseph Fesch |
| Consecration | 22 November 1835 by Joseph Rosati CM |
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| Born |
11 October 1792 Sury-le-Comtal, Rhône-et-Loire, France |
| Died | 20 June 1860 (aged 67) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| Buried |
St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
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Antoine Blanc (11 October 1792 – 20 June 1860) was the fifth Bishop and first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans. His tenure, during which the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese, was at a time of growth in the city, which he matched with the most rapid church expansion in the history of New Orleans. More new parishes were established in New Orleans under his episcopacy than at any other time.
Antoine Blanc was born in Sury, near Sury-le-Comtal, then in the Department of Rhône-et-Loire, France. He attended the seminary at Sury-le-Comtal and was ordained in 1816, arriving in North America at Annapolis, Maryland in 1817. He went to the Louisiana Territory to begin working to establish missions there. However, in his "History of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Vincennes Herman Alerding states that Blanc served as the parish priest in Vincennes, Indiana from April 25, 1818 until February 1820., In addition, Thomas McAvoy, in his book, "The Catholic Church in Indiana 1789-1834" stated that Bishop DuBourg, sent two of his priests to Vincennes in 1818, Father Blanc and Father Jeanjean. Blanc was recalled to Louisiana in January 1819.
After years working as a missioner, principally in the territories of Mississippi and Louisiana, and as parish priest of St. Francis Church in Pointe Coupée (and its mission chapels in the Felicianas and the Plains on the east side of the Mississippi River) and then at St. Joseph Church in Baton Rouge, Father Blanc was appointed by Bishop de Neckère to assist in the administration of the diocese of New Orleans.
In 1827, Antoine Blanc, Armand Duplantier, Fulwar Skipwith, Thomas B. Robertson and Sebastien Hiriart received permission from the state legislature to organize a corporation called the Agricultural Society of Baton Rouge.
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