Alphonse Joseph Glorieux
The Right Reverend Alphonse Joseph Glorieux | |
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Bishop of Boise | |
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Church | Catholic |
Diocese | Boise |
Appointed | 27 February 1885 |
Predecessor | Louis Aloysius Lootens |
Successor | Daniel Mary Gorman |
Orders | |
Ordination | 14 August 1867 by Engelbert Sterckx |
Consecration | 19 April 1885 by James Gibbons |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 February 1844 Dottingies, Belgium |
Died | 25 August 1917 |
Alphonse Joseph Glorieux (February 1, 1844 – August 25, 1917) was a Belgian-born missionary and prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Boise from 1893 until his death in 1917.
Biography
Years in Belgium
Glorieux was born on February 1, 1844 in Dottignies, in the Belgian province of Hainaut, to Auguste and Lucy (née Vanderghinste) Glorieux.[1] He graduated from Collège Saint-Amand in Kortrijk in 1863 and then entered the American College of Louvain to study for the priesthood, with the intent to do missionary work in the United States.[2] He was ordained a priest on August 17, 1867 by Cardinal Engelbert Sterckx in Mechelen.[3]
Ministry in America
In October 1867, two months after his ordination, Glorieux left Belgium and arrived in Portland, Oregon, in December.[2] He spent a few months in Portland as secretary to Bishop François Norbert Blanchet before doing missionary work in Jacksonville and Roseburg in Southern Oregon.[1] After holding further posts in Oregon City and St. Paul, he was appointed the first president of the newly established St. Michael's College, a school for boys in Portland, in 1871.[4]
On February 27, 1885, Glorieux was named the second Vicar Apostolic of the Idaho Territory and titular bishop of Apollonia by Pope Leo XIII.[3] His appointment ended a nine-year vacancy following the resignation of his fellow Belgian Louis Aloysius Lootens. He received his episcopal consecration on April 19 from Archbishop James Gibbons, with Archbishop William Hickley Gross and Bishop Camillus Paul Maes serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of the Assumption in Baltimore.[3]
The vicariate was elevated to the Diocese of Boise, encompassing the entire state of Idaho, on August 25, 1893 and Glorieux was named its first bishop.[3] During his 24-year tenure, he oversaw significant growth in the diocese. According to his obituary in the Idaho Statesman: "The membership of the Catholic church in Idaho has multiplied itself eight times since Bishop Glorieux came to the state, and the number of its churches has increased in a like porportion...and he has been largely responsible for the building and maintenance of the several Catholic hospitals now carrying on their work in the state."[5] In 1906 he laid the cornerstone for the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Boise.
Glorieux died at St. Vincent Hospital in Portland on August 25, 1917, at age 73.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b Shea, John Gilmary (1886). The hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the United States. New York: The Office of Catholic Publications.
- ^ a b Clarke, Richard Henry (1890). History of the Catholic Church in the United States from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Company.
- ^ a b c d "Bishop Alphonse Joseph Glorieux". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
- ^ "Oregon". 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2007-04-15.
- ^ a b "Bishop Glorieux Dies; Body to Lie in State at St. John's Cathedral". Idaho Statesman. August 26, 1917.
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