Francisco Porró y Reinado

The Right Reverend Francisco Porró y Reinado
Bishop of Tarazona
Church	Catholic
Diocese	Tarazona
Appointed	20 July 1801
Orders
Consecration	15 November 1801 by Francisco Antonio Cardinal de Lorenzana y Butrón
Personal details
Born	15 October 1739
Died	3 January 1814

Francisco Bartolomé Porró y Reinado, C.R.M. (15 October 1739 – 3 January 1814) was a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (1801–1803) and Bishop of Tarazona (1803–1814).

Biography

Born in Gibraltar, Porró was a Franciscan of the Convent of the Holy Apostles in Rome.^[1] He was appointed Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas in the United States on 20 July 1801 and received his episcopal consecration on the following 15 November from Cardinal Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana.^[2] However, he never took possession of the diocese; some say that he was never consecrated, he died before departing from Rome, or he never left because of a rumored sale of Louisiana.^[1]^[3]^[4]

On 17 January 1803 Porro was transferred to the See of Terrazona in Spain.^[2] He died in the position at age 74.

References

^ ^a ^b "New Orleans". Catholic Encyclopedia.
^ ^a ^b "Bishop Francisco Porró Reinado". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
^ Clarke, Richard Henry. "Right Rev. Francis Porro, D.D.". Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States.
^ "A History of the Archdiocese of New Orleans: Bishops and Archbishops". Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans. Archived from the original on 2012-08-26.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas	Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas 1801-1803	Succeeded by Louis William Valentine Dubourg
Preceded by Damián Martínez de Galinsonga	Bishop of Terrazona 1803-1814	Succeeded by Jerónimo Castellón y Salas

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans

Ordinaries

Bishops: Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas; Francisco Porró y Reinado; Louis-Guillaume DuBourg; Joseph Rosati; Leo-Raymond de Neckere

Archbishops: Antoine Blanc; Jean-Marie Odin; Napoléon-Joseph Perché; Francis Xavier Leray; Francis Janssens; Placide Louis Chapelle; James Hubert Blenk; John William Shaw; Joseph Francis Rummel; John Patrick Cody; Philip Matthew Hannan; Francis Bible Schulte; Alfred Clifton Hughes; Gregory Michael Aymond

Auxiliary bishops: Gustave Augustin Rouxel; John Laval; Louis Abel Caillouet; Harold Perry, S.V.D.; Stanley Joseph Ott; Robert William Muench; Dominic Carmon, S.V.D.; Gregory Michael Aymond; Roger Paul Morin; Shelton Joseph Fabre; Fernand J. Cheri, O.F.M.

Churches

Cathedral: St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans

Orleans Parish: Immaculate Conception; Our Lady of Guadalupe; St. Augustine Church; St. Mary's Assumption; St. Patrick's

Schools

Higher education: Loyola; University of Holy Cross; Xavier; Notre Dame Seminary; Saint Joseph Seminary College

High schools: Academy of Our Lady; Academy of the Sacred Heart (K-12); Archbishop Chapelle High School; Archbishop Hannan High School; Archbishop Rummel High School; Archbishop Shaw High School; Brother Martin High School; Cabrini High School; De La Salle High School; Holy Cross High School; Jesuit High School; Mount Carmel Academy; Pope John Paul II; St. Augustine High School; St. Charles Catholic High School; St. Katharine Drexel Preparatory School; Saint Mary's Academy; St. Mary's Dominican High School; St. Paul's School; St. Scholastica Academy; St. Thérèse Academy for Exceptional Learners; Ursuline Academy