Benedict Joseph Flaget
The Right Reverend Benedict Joseph Flaget, S.S., was a Frenchborn Catholic bishop in the United States. He served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown between 1808 and 1839, then as Bishop of the Diocese of Louisville between 1839 and 1850 when the see was transferred to Louisville in 1839.
Flaget was born on November 7, 1763 in Contournat, now part of the commune of SaintJuliendeCoppel, in the ancient Province of Auvergne in the center of the Kingdom of France. Orphaned at an early age, he and his siblings were raised by his maternal aunt, assisted by his paternal uncle, a canon at the collegiate church of Billom. At the age ofhe entered the Society of SaintSulpice at ClermontFerrand. He was ordained a priest on June 1, 1788. Flaget then taught theology for two years at the University of Nantes, and soon held the same post at the seminary at Angers, until those institutions were closed by the French Revolution.
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