- John Stephen Bazin
Bishop John Stephen (Jean Etienne) Bazin was the third
Roman Catholic Bishop of Vincennes (now theArchdiocese of Indianapolis ). He was born atDuerne , nearLyon, France , October 15, 1796; died atVincennes, Indiana , U.S.A., April 23, 1848. He was educated in his native country and ordained in theCathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Lyon , July 22, 1822. In 1830 he migrated to theUnited States and began his labours among the Catholics ofMobile, Alabama , where for seventeen years he toiled zealously for the religious instruction of the young, organizing the Sunday schools and establishing the Catholic Orphan Asylum Society. He was also the vicar-general of the diocese. In 1846 at the request of BishopMichael Portier , Father Bazin went to France to secure the services of theSociety of Jesus forSpring Hill College of Mobile, Alabama, and of theBrothers of the Christian Schools for the Boys' Orphan Asylum. In both efforts he was successful. When the Right Rev.Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière , Bishop of Vincennes, resigned his see in 1847, Father Bazin was consecrated his successor on the 24th of October of that year. His episcopal career, which promised to be one of great usefulness to the Church, was cut short by his untimely death, in 1848.References
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbazin.html Catholic-Hierarchy.org data]
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02361b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia bio]
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