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St. Joseph School (Ponchatoula) West Baton Rouge Parish Holy Family School (Port Allen) - It opened on September 5, 1949, with 146 students in Kindergarten through grade 3, with it becoming K-5 in 1950, and with one grade level per subsequent year until it was K-8, with 345 students, in 1953.
Michael Gerard Duca (born June 5, 1952) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Baton Rouge in Louisiana since his installation on August 24, 2018. He previously served as the bishop of the Diocese of Shreveport in Louisiana from 2008 to 2018.
He named Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Tracy of the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana as the first bishop of Baton Rouge. Tracy designated St. Joseph Church as the cathedral church of the new diocese. When he took office, the new diocese had a Roman Catholic population 164,476 out of a total population of 464,904, as reported in the 1960 U.S. census .
Saint Thomas Aquinas Regional Catholic High School; St. Gabriel Catholic Church (St. Gabriel, Louisiana) St. John High School (Plaquemine, Louisiana) St. Joseph Cathedral (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) St. Joseph's Academy (Baton Rouge) St. Michael the Archangel High School (East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana) Joseph Vincent Sullivan
Bishop Muench preaching in 2018. On December 15, 2001, John Paul II appointed Muench as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Baton Rouge . He was installed at St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge on March 14, 2002, with Archbishop Alfred Hughes presiding. Muench also served on the board of trustees of Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans and Saint ...
Joseph Vincent Sullivan (August 15, 1919—September 4, 1982) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church.He served as bishop of the Diocese of Baton Rouge in Louisiana from 1974 until his death in 1982.
Robert Emmet Tracy (September 14, 1909—April 4, 1980) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Baton Rouge in Louisiana from 1961 to 1974. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana from 1959 to 1961.
Following the death of Sullivan in September 1982, Ott was named the third bishop of the Diocese of Baton Rouge by Pope John Paul II on January 13, 1983. [4] During his nine-year tenure, he encouraged the increased participation of the laity in diocesan affairs, and promoted the ecumenical movement by engaging with leaders of other religions. [ 5 ]