James Blenk
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The Most Reverend James Herbert Blenk S.M. |
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| Archbishop of New Orleans | |
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| See | New Orleans |
| Installed | April 20, 1906 |
| Term ended | April 20, 1917 |
| Predecessor | Placide Louis Chapelle |
| Successor | John William Shaw |
| Other posts | Bishop of Puerto Rico (1899-1906) |
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| Ordination | August 16, 1885 |
| Consecration | July 2, 1899 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 28, 1856 Edenkoben, Bavaria, Germany |
| Died | April 20, 1917 (aged 60) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
James Hubert Herbert Blenk, S.M. (July 28, 1856 – April 20, 1917) was a German American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Puerto Rico (1899–1906) and Archbishop of New Orleans (1906–1917).
James Blenk was born in Edenkoben, Rhenish Palatinate, to James and Catherine (née Wiedemann) Blenk. Born and raised in a Protestant family, he was the youngest of seventeen children and also a twin but his twin brother died at six months. In 1866 he and his family emigrated from Germany and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. His parents died only some weeks later and the orphan James Blenk was brought up in a Catholic family. Converting to Catholicism at age 12, Blenk was baptized at St. Alphonsus Church in 1869 and later confirmed by Archbishop Napoléon-Joseph Perché.
After completing his primary education in New Orleans, he entered Jefferson College (in Convent, Louisiana), eventually joining the Society of Mary (more commonly known as the Marist Fathers) 1878. He was then sent to the Marist House of Studies in Belley, France, and completed his probationary studies at the novitiate in Lyons before being sent to further his studies at the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin. In Ireland, he taught mathematics at St. Mary's College, Dundalk (1881–82).
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