Constellation Similarity Assertions
Salpointe, Jean Baptiste
Jean Baptiste Salpointe was born at St. Maurice, Puy de Dome, France on February 21, 1825. After studying theology at Clermont Seminary, he was ordained as a priest. He held several posts in Europe before arriving in the United States as a missionary for Archbishop Lamy of Santa Fe. Salpointe was sent to the Arizona Territory, and when this region was converted to a vicariate, Salpoint was named the First Vicar Apostolic of Arizona, his territory including Arizona, New Mexico and a part of Texas. He was again promoted in 1884, this time to archbishop, succeeding Lamy. He resigned this position in 1894, returning to Tucson, where he died four years later.
From the guide to the Correspondence of Jean B. Salpointe, 1867-1884, (University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections)
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Salpointe, John Baptist, 1825-1898
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John Baptiste Salpointe was born in Saint Maurice, Puy-de-Do^me, France in 1825. He was ordained as a priest in 1851 and came to New Mexico as a missionary in 1859. After serving the Church for 35 years, he retired in 1894. During those years he was appointed Vicar General for the Missions of Arizona, and then became Bishop of Arizona. He returned to New Mexico in 1885, when he succeeded Lamy as the Archbishop of Santa Fe. In 1898, Salpointe wrote a history of the Catholic Church in the Southwes...
