Jean-Baptiste Lamy
Jean-Baptiste Lamy | |
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| Archbishop of Santa Fe | |
| Church | Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi |
| Archdiocese | Santa Fe |
| In office | July 29, 1853 – July 19, 1885 |
| Successor | Jean-Baptiste Salpointe |
| Other post(s) | Vicar Apostolic of New Mexico (1850–1853) Bishop of Santa Fe (1853–1855) |
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| Born | October 11, 1814 Lempdes, Puy-de-Dôme, France |
| Died | February 13, 1888 (aged 73) Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States |
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Jean-Baptiste Lamy (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist lami]; October 11, 1814 – February 13, 1888), was a French-American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career (albeit renamed to "Jean-Marie Latour" for artistic license), as is Paul Horgan's nonfiction work Lamy of Santa Fe. He sometimes anglicised his name to John Baptist Lamy.