Jean-Marie Odin
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The Most Reverend Jean-Marie Odin C.M. |
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| Archbishop of New Orleans | |
| See | New Orleans |
| Installed | February 15, 1861 |
| Term ended | May 25, 1870 |
| Predecessor | Antoine Blanc |
| Successor | Napoléon-Joseph Perché |
| Other posts |
Vicar Apostolic of Texas (1842-1847) Bishop of Galveston (1847-1861) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | May 4, 1823 |
| Consecration | March 6, 1842 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 25, 1800 Hauteville, Ambierle, France |
| Died | May 25, 1870 (aged 70) Hauteville, Ambierle, France |
Jean-Marie Odin, C.M. (February 25, 1800 – May 25, 1870) was a French Roman Catholic missionary, first Bishop of Galveston (1847-1861), and second Archbishop of New Orleans (1861-1870).
The seventh of ten children, Jean-Marie Odin was born in Hauteville, Ambierle, to Jean and Claudine Marie (née Seyrol) Odin. He showed a strong inclination toward religion from an early age, and was sent at age 9 to study Latin under his uncle, the pastor of Noailly, whose death soon ended this period of instruction. After two years at home, he studied the classics at Roanne and Verrières before beginning his studies in philosophy at L'Argentière and Alix. Odin, while attending the Sulpician seminary in Lyon, accepted an appeal from Bishop Louis Dubourg in 1822 to join the missions in Louisiana.
After arriving in New Orleans in July 1822, he was sent to complete his theological studies at St. Mary's of the Barrens Seminary in Perryville, Missouri on the outskirts of St. Louis. He entered the Congregation of the Mission (also known as the Lazarists or Vincentians) on November 8, 1822, and was later ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Dubourg on May 4, 1823. Odin then did missionary work in New Madrid and among the Native Americans along the Arkansas River, also serving as a professor and later president of St. Mary's Seminary. He accompanied Bishop Joseph Rosati to the Second Provincial Council of Baltimore in 1833 as theologian, and briefly served as pastor of Cape Girardeau, where he opened a school in 1838.
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