Peter Bourgade

The Most Rev. Peter Bourgade
Archbishop of Santa Fe
Church Roman Catholic Church
See Santa Fe
In office January 7, 1899May 17, 1908
Predecessor Placide Louis Chapelle
Successor John Baptist Pitaval
Orders
Ordination November 30, 1869
Consecration May 1, 1885
Personal details
Born (1845-10-17)October 17, 1845
Vollore-Ville, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Died May 17, 1908(1908-05-17) (aged 62)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Peter Bourgade (October 17, 1845 May 17, 1908) was a French-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Tucson (1885–1899) and Archbishop of Santa Fe (1899–1908).

Bourgade was born in Vollore-Ville, Puy-de-Dôme, and studied at the College of Billom and the Grand Seminary of Montferrand.[1] In 1869 he accepted an invitation from Bishop Jean-Baptiste Salpointe to join the Apostolic Vicariate of Arizona in the United States, where he was ordained to the priesthood on November 30, 1869.[2] He was first assigned to Yuma, and returned to France in 1873 to strengthen his failing health.[1] Following his return to the United States, he was pastor of San Elizario, Texas, from 1875 until 1881, when he was transferred to Silver City, New Mexico.[1]

On February 7, 1885, Bourgade was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Arizona and Titular Bishop of Thaumacus by Pope Leo XIII.[2] He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 1 from Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy, with Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Salpointe and Bishop Joseph Projectus Machebeuf serving as co-consecrators.[2] The vicariate was elevated to the Diocese of Tucson on May 8, 1897, and Bourgade was named its first Bishop.[2] He there established of twelve schools and orphanages.[3]

On January 7, 1899, he was named the fourth Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico.[2] The territory under his jurisdiction in 1902 contained 66 priests, 42 churches, 340 missions, stations and chapels, three academies for boys and six for girls, and a Catholic population of about 133,000.[1] Bourgade later died from heart failure, aged 62.[3] He is buried in the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "BOURGADE, Peter". The National Encyclopedia of American Biography, 1904.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Archbishop Peter Bourgade (Bougarde)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
  3. 1 2 3 "Bourgade Catholic High School is named after the Most Reverend Archbishop Peter Bourgade (1845 - 1908)". Bourgade Catholic High School.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe (as Vicar Apostolic of Arizona)
Bishop of Tucson
18851899
Succeeded by
Henry Regis Granjon
Preceded by
Placide Louis Chapelle
Archbishop of Santa Fe
18991908
Succeeded by
John Baptist Pitaval


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