Francis Xavier Leray
Francis Xavier Leray was a Frenchborn prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Natchitoches and Archbishop of New Orleans .
Leray was born in Chteaugiron, IlleetVilaine, to Ren and Marie Leray. He studied at the College of Rennes from 1833 until 1844, when he accepted an appeal for missionaries in Louisiana, United States. Following his arrival, he taught for several months at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, before entering St. Marys Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, where he completed his theological studies. In 1852 he accompanied Bishop John J. Chanche to Natchez, Mississippi, where Leray was ordained to priesthood on Marchof that year.
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