Thaddeus Amat y Brusi
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The Right Reverend Thaddeus Amat y Brusi, C.M. |
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| Bishop of Monterey-Los Angeles | |
Portrait of Bishop Thaddeus Amat at the San Fernando Mission in California
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| Native name | Tadeu Amat i Brusi |
| Province | San Francisco |
| Diocese | Monterey-Los Angeles |
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| Ordination | December 23, 1837 by Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen |
| Consecration | March 12, 1854 by Giacomo Filippo Fransoni |
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December 31, 1810 Barcelona, Napoleonic Spain |
| Died | May 12, 1878 (aged 67) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Buried | Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Nationality | Spanish |
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Styles of Thaddeus Amat |
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| Reference style | The Right Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | His Excellency |
| Posthumous style | none |
Thaddeus Amat y Brusi, C.M. (Catalan: Tadeu Amat i Brusi) (December 31, 1810 – May 12, 1878), was a Roman Catholic cleric who became the first Bishop of Los Angeles, California.
Amat was born in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, Spain, on December 31, 1810. He entered the Congregation of the Mission, commonly called the Vincentian Fathers, in 1832 and was ordained a priest of the Congregation on December 23, 1837, in Paris, France, by Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen, the Archbishop of Paris. Subsequently, he was sent to the United States as a missionary in Louisiana; later serving as a novice master for his congregation in Missouri and Pennsylvania.
On 28 July 1853, while serving as the Rector of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, he was appointed the Bishop of Monterey in California. The diocese's previous bishop, Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P., had been promoted to archbishop of the newly created Archdiocese of San Francisco.
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