death_date consecration term birth_date church death_place title image name ordination consecrated_by predecessor birth_place type ordained_by previous_post successor see article_title
19 february 1858 december 10 , 1837 july 28 , 1837 -- february 20 , 1858 30 august 1792 roman catholic church dubuque , iowa bishop of dubuque mathias loras portrait-1 . jpg mathias loras , dd november 12 , 1815 michael portier none lyon , france bishop joseph fesch president -rrb- of spring hill college -lrb- 1830 -- 1832 clement smyth dubuque mathias loras

mathias loras

bishop mathias loras -lrb- august 30 , 1792 -- february 19 , 1858 -rrb- was an immigrant french priest to the united states who later became the first bishop of the dubuque diocese in what would become the state of iowa .
