Arthur Jerome Drossaerts

Arthur Jerome Drossaerts (September 11, 1862 – September 8, 1940) was a Dutch-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of San Antonio from 1918 until his death.

Arthur Drossaerts was born in Breda to Cornelius and Sophie (née de Fraiture) Drossaerts, and studied at a several seminaries in the Netherlands. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Adrian Godschalk on June 15, 1889, and then traveled to the United States at the request of Archbishop Francis Janssens, who assigned Drossaerts to pastoral work in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He initiated the religious education of African-American Catholics, and also served as a pastor in New Orleans, Broussard, and Baton Rouge.

On July 18, 1918, Drossaerts was appointed the fifth Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, by Pope Benedict XV. He received his episcopal consecration on the following December 18 from Archbishop Giovanni Bonzano, with Bishops Theophile Meerschaert and John Laval serving as co-consecrators, in St. Louis Cathedral. Drossaerts was later made an Archbishop upon San Antonio's elevation to the rank of an archdiocese on August 3, 1926.