Silas Chatard

Silas Chatard

Silas Franics Marean Chatard (1834-1918) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Indianapolis in the United States.

He was born Francis Chatard in Baltimore, Maryland on December 13, 1834. Raised in Baltimore, he attended Mount Saint Mary's College (now Mount Saint Mary's University), receiving a doctorate in medicine.

Soon afterward, he received a revelation and began studying at the College of the Propaganda at Rome to become a priest. He was ordained on June 14, 1862, and received a Doctor of Divinity degree from the college the next year.

Following his graduation, he served as Vice-Rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. In 1868, he became rector of the college. On March 26, 1878 he was named Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana. At his consecration in Rome on June 14, 1878, he switched his first and middle name, taking the name of Francis Silas. (The name Marean was his mother's maiden name). He was installed in the cathedral at Vincennes on August 11, 1878 and he went almost immediately to Indianapolis, arriving there on August 17, 1878.

While bishop, he oversaw the movement of the Episcopal see of the diocese of Vincennes to Indianapolis in 1898. Following the move, he was named as the first bishop of the newly-renamed diocese of Indianapolis. When he died on September 7, 1918, at the age of 83, he did so having enormously changed the face of the Catholic Church in Indiana. His body was interred in the crypt of the cathedral of Sts. Pete and Paul in Indianapolis. On June 8, 1976, Bishop Chatard’s remains were transferred from the cathedral to the Calvary Cemetery, Chapel Mausoleum, Indianapolis.

The diocese of Indianapolis was split in 1944. The old see city of Vincennes was made part of the new diocese of Evansville with Indianapolis being raised to the status of Archdiocese. [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/events/d1944.html Year 1944, diocese events] ]

External links

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/dus2.html Listing of American Dioceses]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bchatard.html Catholic Hierarchy Biography of Chatard]
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07744a.htm History of Diocese of Indianapolis]
* [http://archindy.org/history/bishops.html History of the Bishops of Indianapolis]

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