Ramsey County History – Fall 1969: “Forgotten Pioneers: Bishop Joseph Cretin”

Forgotten Pioneers: Bishop Joseph Cretin

A brief account of Joseph Cretin’s early life and his six years in St. Paul, 1851–1857. As a young priest in France, Cretin burned to do missionary work, but had to wait until he was thirty-nine; then he was sent to Iowa and Wisconsin. Cretin was appointed the first bishop of the Diocese of St. Paul in 1851. He presided over a huge expansion of the diocese in parishioners, churches and other buildings, societies, institutions, and influence.
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