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Paul VI named Bishop Warren Boudreaux from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont in Texas as the first bishop of Houma-Thibodaux. [9] Boudreaux became known for placing a ban on church fairs in 1985, objecting to the consumption of alcohol and overall frivolity at such events. [ 10 ]
Warren Louis Boudreaux (January 25, 1918 – October 6, 1997) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as the first bishop of the new Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux in Louisiana from 1977 to 1992
On August 1, 2003, John Paul II appointed Jacobs as the third bishop of Houma-Thibodaux. He was installed on October 10, 2003. [1] Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, he served chairman of the Committee for Evangelization (2005-2007), and was a member of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth and the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis.
Houma-Thibodaux's newly named Catholic bishop, Mario E. Dorsonville, talks with diocese employees Holly Becnel, left, and Melissa Robertson after a news conference announcing his appointment ...
A native of Bogotá, Colombia, he was Houma-Thibodaux's fifth bishop. The Houma-Thibodaux's diocese includes 38 churches, 11 schools and an estimated 90,000 Catholics in Terrebonne, Lafourche and ...
Houma-Thibodaux's Catholic Bishop Shelton Fabre has been named to lead the Louisville, Kentucky, diocese.
Each color on the map represents an ecclesiastical province. The divisions in each province show the archdiocese and its individual dioceses. The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Paul VI named Boudreaux as bishop of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux in 1977. Paul VI named Bishop Bernard J. Ganter of the Diocese of Tulsa as the third bishop of Beaumont in 1977. As bishop, Ganter established five new parishes, including the first Vietnamese-language parish in the United States. [11]