Placide Louis Chapelle

Archbishop Placide Chapelle (standing, left) and Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, circa 1891

Ordination history of Placide Louis Chapelle
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	James Gibbons (Baltimore)
Date of consecration	November 1, 1891
Bishops consecrated by Placide Louis Chapelle as principal consecrator
Gustave Augustin Rouxel	April 9, 1899
Francisco de Paula Barnada y Aguilar	July 2, 1899
James Blenk, S.M.	July 2, 1899
Pedro Ladislao González y Estrada	October 28, 1903
Braulio Orúe y Vivanco	October 28, 1903
Bonaventure Broderick	October 28, 1903
Antonio Aurelio Torres y Sanz, O.C.D.	May 22, 1904
Cornelius Van de Ven	November 30, 1904

Archbishop Placide Louise Chapelle (August 28, 1842, Fraissinet-de-Lozère, Lozère, France – August 9, 1905, New Orleans, United States) was a French-American Roman Catholic archbishop.

Biography

Chapelle was ordained in June 1865, appointed to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe from 1894, and appointed by Leo XIII to the Archdiocese of New Orleans concurrently from December 1897. The following year he became apostolic delegate in Cuba and Puerto Rico and the extraordinary envoy in the Philippines.^[1]

Chapelle's mission in the Philippines was particularly difficult due to the Spanish–American War. His knowledge of English, Spanish and French, and his excellent knowledge of the American constitution, allowed him to render great service to the Holy See. He perished of yellow fever.

References

1. Gerardo Alberto Hernández-Aponte, La Iglesia Católica en Puerto Rico ante la invasión de Estados Unidos de América. Lucha, sobrevivencia y estabilización: (1898–1921). Segunda edición, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia y Decanato de Estudios Graduados e Investigación (DEGI) de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, 2013, pp. 189–190.

External links

•  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Placide-Louis Chapelle". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.