Louis de Goesbriand

Louis Joseph Marie Théodore de Goesbriand (August 4, 1816 – November 3, 1899) was a French-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

[2] On July 13, 1840, De Goesbriand was ordained to the priesthood in St. Louis, Missouri by Bishop Joseph Rosati for the Diocese of Saint Paul.

He received his episcopal consecration on October 30, 1853, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City from Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, with Bishops John McCloskey and Louis Rappe serving as co-consecrators.

[1] Between 1891 and 1897, de Goesbriand translated several works of Reverend Pierre Chaignon from French to English, including Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy and The Sacrifice of the Mass Worthily Celebrated.

Louis De Goesbriand died on November 3, 1899, at St. Joseph's Orphan Home in Burlington[7] at age 83, then the oldest bishop in the United States.