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Up from Scratch: Bishop John Chanche and Mississippi Catholicism
July 16, 2012 by Pat McNamara
A popular preacher, he was even asked to preach to Protestant audiences. The Mississippi Free Trader called him a "finished and ripe scholar... a dignified prelate."
Among his fellow bishops, Chanche was a highly respected figure. In May 1852, he attended the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, a national gathering of the American bishops. However, he died of cholera in Frederick, Maryland, on July 22, 1852, and was buried in Baltimore's Cathedral Cemetery. In August 2007, his remains were re-interred at the cathedral he had built in Natchez (according to his original wish).
In 1848, he had brought the first Catholic nuns to Mississippi, the Sisters of Charity. Soon they opened a school and orphanage. By the time of the bishop's death, there were eleven priests in the state, along with eleven parishes and thirty-two missions. He had also started an outreach to African-American Catholics.
Over the course of only eleven years, Bishop Chanche created the framework for Catholic life in a state and, as one historian notes, he "inaugurated a happier day for religion in Mississippi."
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About Pat McNamara
Dr. Pat McNamara is a published historian. He blogs about American Catholic History at McNamara's Blog.
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