Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg
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The Most Reverend Lord Louis William Valentine Dubourg, S.S. |
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| Archbishop of Besançon | |
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| See | Besançon |
| Installed | 29 July 1833 |
| Term ended | 12 December 1833 |
| Predecessor | Cardinal Louis-François-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot |
| Successor | Cardinal Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu |
| Other posts |
Apostolic Administrator of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (18 August 1812-18 September 1815) Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (18 September 1815-14 January 1826) Apostolic Administrator of Mississippi (19 August 1825-14 January 1826) Bishop of Montauban (20 August 1826-29 July 1833) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 20 March 1790 |
| Consecration | 24 September 1815 by Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 10, 1766 Cap-Français, Saint-Domingue |
| Died | December 12, 1833 (aged 67) Besançon, Doubs, France |
| Buried | Cathédrale Saint-Jean, Besançon, Doubs, France |
| Parents | Pierre Dubourg & Marguerite Armand de Vogluzan |
Louis William Valentine Dubourg, S.S., (French: Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg) (10 January 1766 – 12 December 1833) was a Sulpician bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the early years of the United States in St. Louis, Missouri, and later an Archbishop in France.
He was born in Cap-Français, Saint-Domingue (present-day Cap-Haïtien, Haiti) to Pierre Dubourg and his wife, Marguerite (née Armand de Vogluzan).
Pierre Dubourg was a merchant from Bordeaux who had relocated temporarily to Saint-Domingue. His business interests included a trading warehouse and a coffee plantation. Although the family would retain interests in the island, young Louis was sent back to France at the age of two, to live with his maternal grandparents in Bordeaux and to be educated there. His early education was received at the Collège de Guyenne, a royal institution claiming a history dating back to the 3rd century.
Dubourg continued his education at the minor seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, entering on 12 October 1786. Saint-Sulpice was run by the Sulpician Fathers, who were dedicated to seminary education, and maintained a major seminary for the education of the sons of the nobility and a minor seminary for the education of commoners.
Dubourg completed his course and was ordained on 20 March 1790, thought to be an auspicious time for the commencement of a clerical career in France, after which he himself joined the Society of Saint-Sulpice. His first assignment as a new priest was to a new community at Issy to work in a boarding school for younger boys. As conditions deteriorated under the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, Dubourg was forced to flee France in August 1792 for exile in Spain.
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