John Baptist Mary David
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The Right Reverend John Baptist Mary David, S.S. |
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| Bishop of Bardstown | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| See | Bardstown |
| In office | August 25, 1832—March 17, 1833 |
| Predecessor | Benedict Joseph Flaget, S.S. |
| Successor | Benedict Joseph Flaget, S.S. |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | September 24, 1785 |
| Consecration | August 15, 1819 by Benedict Joseph Flaget, S.S. |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 4, 1761 Couëron, Province of Brittany, Kingdom of France |
| Died | July 12, 1841 (aged 80) Nazareth, Kentucky, United States |
| Previous post | Coadjutor Bishop of Bardstown (1819-1832) |
John Baptist Mary David, S.S. (French: Jean-Baptiste-Marie David), (June 4, 1761 – July 12, 1841) was a French-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Bardstown in Kentucky from 1832 to 1833.
David was born in Couëron, in the Province of Brittany (now the Department of Loire-Atlantique) in pre-revolutionary France. At age 7 he was placed under the care of his uncle, a priest, who instructed the boy in Latin, French, and music. He entered the nearby college of the Oratorians at age 14, and later the seminary of the Diocese of Nantes, receiving the tonsure in 1778.Ordained a priest on September 24, 1785, he joined the Society of Saint-Sulpice (commonly known as the Sulpicians) and taught philosophy, theology, and Scripture at the Sulpician seminary in Angers from 1786 until 1790, when the French Revolution forced him to seek shelter in the private home of a Catholic family.
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