Thomas Ludger Dupré

Thomas Ludger Dupré (November 10, 1933 – December 30, 2016) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts from 1995 to 2004.

Dupré was born in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and studied at the Collège de Montréal in Québec, Canada, from 1951 to 1952. Returning to the United States, he briefly attended Assumption College in Worcester before returning to Canada in 1955 to study theology at the Grand Seminary of Montreal. Dupré, following his return to Massachusetts, was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Christopher Joseph Weldon on May 23, 1959.

He then served as a curate at St. George's Church in Chicopee until 1964, when he was sent to further his studies at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. In 1966 he was assigned to St. Joseph's Church in Springfield. Dupré then served at St. John the Baptist in Ludlow (1970–1973), Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Chicopee (1973–1977), and St. Louis de France in West Springfield (1978–1990). He was named chancellor (1977) and vicar general (1989) of the Diocese of Springfield.

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