James Blenk


James Hubert Herbert Blenk, S.M. was a German American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Puerto Rico and Archbishop of New Orleans .

James Blenk was born in Edenkoben, Rhenish Palatinate, to James and Catherine Blenk. Born and raised in a Protestant family, he was the youngest of seventeen children and also a twin but his twin brother died at six months. In 1866 he and his family emigrated from Germany and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. His parents died only some weeks later and the orphan James Blenk was brought up in a Catholic family. Converting to Catholicism at age 12, Blenk was baptized at St. Alphonsus Church in 1869 and later confirmed by Archbishop NapolonJoseph Perch.

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