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Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus
First Roman Catholic Bishop of Boston
Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus. (1768 – 1836).
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•Cheverus refused to take the oath of the French Revolution.•Fled to England in 1792. Reverend Francois Antoine Matignon invited him to Boston in 1796.•Initially appointed to Penobscot and Passamaquoddy missions in Maine.•Built first Cathedral of Holy Cross 1803.•Consecrated Bishop of Boston in 1810 in Baltimore by Bishop John Carroll.•Cheverus instrumental in the establishment in 1816 of The Provident Institution for Savings.•In 1823 King Louis XVIII insisted that Cheverus return to France. Named the Bishop of Montauban, in 1823, while still in Boston.•Appointed Archbishop of Bordeaux in 1826.•Elevated to cardinal in February, 1836, in accordance with the wish of King Louis Philippe.•Cheverus died in Bordeaux in July, 1836, at the age of sixty-eight.“Diligamus Nos Invicem”
“Let Us Love One Another”
