Diocese of Alexandria in Louisiana

DIOCESE OF ALEXANDRIA (Dioecesis Alexandrina)

Country : United States
Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : 1853 as Diocese of Natchitoches
Renamed Alexandria in 1910
Renamed Alexandria-Shreveport 1976-1986
1986 split in Diocese of Alexandria and Diocese of Shreveport

Official blazon

• (en) Gules, a cross throughout Argent between four bells of the last; overall, at the center point, a crescent checky Sable and Or.

Origin/meaning

The red field signifies the Red River that runs through the See city. The cross - a symbol of the Faith- divides the four whete bells that are taken from the arms of the Patriarchal See of Alexandria in Egypt, for which the See city in USA is named.

Over all a black-and-yellow checkered crescent, taken from the arms of the Spanish family ¨Xavier¨, and this symbol is used throughout ecclesiastical heraldry as the classic charge for Saint Francis Xavier, patron saint of the cathedral church in Alexandria.

Arms of Bishops of Natchitoches

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  Augustus Marie Martin (1853-1875)

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  Francis Xavier Leray (1876-1879)

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  Anthony Durier (1884-1904)

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  Cornelius van de Ven (1904-1910)

Arms of Bishops of Alexandria

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  Cornelius van de Ven (1910-1932)

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  Daniel Francis Desmond (1932-1945)

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  Charles Pasquale Greco (1946-1973)

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  Lawrence Preston Joseph Graves (1973-1976)

Arms of Bishops of Alexandria-Shreveport

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  Lawrence Preston Joseph Graves (1976-1982)

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  William Benedict Friend (1982-1986)

Arms of Bishops of Alexandria

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  John Clement Favalora (1986-1989)

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  Sam Galip Jacobs (1989-2003)

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  Ronald Paul Herzog (2005-2017)

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  David Prescott Talley (2017-2019)

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  Robert William Marshall (2020-present)

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