Isidore Robot
| The Rt. Rev. Dom Isidore Robot, O.S.B. | |
|---|---|
| Apostolic Prefect of the Indian Territory, Oklahoma | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| See | Prefecture Apostolic of the Indian Territory, Oklahoma |
| In office | May 14, 1876—February 15, 1887 |
| Predecessor | none |
| Successor | Ignatius Jean, O.S.B. |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1862 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 18, 1837 Tharoiseau, Yonne, France |
| Died | February 15, 1887 (aged 49) Dallas, Texas, United States |
Isidore Robot (July 18, 1837 – February 15, 1887) was a French-born missionary of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Prefect of the Indian Territory, Oklahoma from 1876 to 1887.
Born July 18, 1837, at Tharoiseau, Yonne, France, Dom Isidore Robot, O.S.B., entered the nearby Benedictine monastery of Sainte-Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire. He was professed as a monk in 1859 and ordained a priest in 1862.
After the fall of Emperor Napoleon III in 1870, anticlerical laws enacted under the French Third Republic began closing convents and monasteries throughout France. As Robot's monastery was among those threatened, he and a companion, Brother Dominic Lambert, were sent by their abbot to find a place of refuge for the community. They left for the United States, arriving in French-speaking Louisiana in 1873, seeking a fresh start.
At that time, the spiritual care of the newly established Indian Territory was under the supervision of the Diocese of Little Rock in Arkansas. The Archbishop of New Orleans, the Most Rev. Napoléon-Joseph Perché, in whose ecclesiastical province the whole region lay, recommended to the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith that Robot and his monastic community take charge of this region as a Prefecture Apostolic, a quasi-independent jurisdiction.
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