Emmanuel Boleslaus Ledvina

Emmanuel Boleslaus Ledvina (October 28, 1868 – December 15, 1952) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Corpus Christi from 1921 to 1949.

Emmanuel Ledvina was born in Evansville, Indiana, to George Emmanuel and Mary (née Kiefer) Ledvina. His father was a native of Bohemia, and worked as an architect and construction engineer. After attending parochial schools in Evansville and St. Louis, Missouri, he returned to Indiana and entered St. Meinrad's College in 1883. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Silas Chatard on March 18, 1893. Ledvina then served as a curate at Holy Trinity Church in Evansville and afterwards at St. John's Pro-Cathedral in Indianapolis. From 1895 to 1907, he was pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Princeton. He became vice-president and general secretary of the Catholic Church Extension Society in 1907. He was later named a Domestic Prelate in 1918, and an honorary canon of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1919.

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