1814
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (died 1888)
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (died 1888)
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (died 1888)
Jean-Baptiste Lamy
French Catholic bishop in the United States
- Born
- 1814
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, was a French-American Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career, as is Paul Horgan's nonfiction work Lamy of Santa Fe. He sometimes anglicised his name to John Baptist Lamy.
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