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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.
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.
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 ...
List of the archbishops of Canterbury up to Rowan Williams (2002–2012), in Canterbury Cathedral. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the "Primate of All England", [1] effectively serving as the head of the established Church of England and, symbolically, of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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 .
Tracy was named the first bishop of the new Diocese of Baton Rouge on August 10, 1961 by John XXIII. Tracy was installed on November 8, 1961. From 1962 to 1965, Tracy attended the Second Vatican Council in Rome; on October 24, 1963, he addressed the Council in the name of his fellow American bishops on the subject of racial equality .
Alfred Clifton Hughes, KCHS (born December 2, 1932) is a retired American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New Orleans from 2002 to 2009.. Hughes previously served as Bishop of Baton Rouge from 1993 to 2002 and as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Boston from 1981 to 1993
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.