previous_post predecessor successor death_date consecration birth_place death_place title article_title type see term birth_date ordination name church
bishop of tucson -lrb- 1885-1899 -rrb- placide louis chapelle john baptist pitaval 17 may 1908 may 1 , 1885 vollore-ville , puy-de-dôme , france santa fe , new mexico , united states archbishop of santa fe peter bourgade
 bishop santa fe january , 1908 7 , 1899 & mdash ; may 17 17 october 1845 november 30 , 1869 the most rev. peter bourgade roman catholic church
peter bourgade

peter bourgade -lrb- october 17 , 1845 -- may 17 , 1908 -rrb- was a french-born prelate of the roman catholic church .
he served as bishop of tucson -lrb- 1885 -- 1899 -rrb- and archbishop of santa fe -lrb- 1899 -- 1908 -rrb- .
bourgade was born in vollore-ville , puy-de-dôme , and studied at the college of billone and the grand seminary of montferrand .
in 1869 he accepted an invitation from bishop jean-baptiste salpointe to join the apostolic vicariate of arizona in the united states , where he was ordained to the priesthood on november 30 , 1869 .
he was first assigned to yuma , and returned to france in 1873 to strengthen his failing health .
following his return to the united states , he was pastor of san elizario , texas , from 1875 until 1881 , when he was transferred to silver city , new mexico .
on february 7 , 1885 , bourgade was appointed vicar apostolic of arizona and titular bishop of `` thaumacus '' by pope leo xiii .
he received his episcopal consecration on the following may 1 from archbishop jean-baptiste lamy , with archbishop jean-baptiste salpointe and bishop joseph projectus machebeuf serving as co-consecrators .
the vicariate was elevated to the diocese of tucson on may 8 , 1897 , and bourgade was named its first bishop .
he there established of twelve schools and orphanages .
on january 7 , 1899 , he was named the fourth archbishop of santa fe , new mexico .
the territory under his jurisdiction in 1902 contained 66 priests , 42 churches , 340 missions , stations and chapels , three academies for boys and six for girls , and a catholic population of about 133,000 .
bourgade later died from heart failure , aged 62 .
he is buried in the cathedral of st. francis of assisi .
