Archdiocese of New Orleans

ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS (Archidioecesis Novae Aureliae)

Country : United States
Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : 1793

Official blazon

Azure, a pelican in her piety between three magnolia blossoms, two in chief and one in base all argent, on a chief gules three fleurs-de-lis in fess or.

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Arms of Bishops of Louisiana and the Two Floridas

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  Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas (1795-1801)

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  Francisco Porró y Reinado (1801-1803)

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  Louis-Guillaume Dubourg (1818-1825)

Arms of Archbishops

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  Antoine Blanc (1850-1860)

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  Jean-Marie Odin (1861-1870)

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  Napoléon-Joseph Perché (1870-1883)

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  Francis Xavier Leray (1883-1887)

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  Francis Janssens (1888-1897)

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  Placide-Louis Chapelle (1897-1905)

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  James Blenk (1906-1917)

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  John William Shaw (1918-1934)

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  Joseph Francis Rummel (1935-1964)

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  John Patrick Cody (1964-1965)

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  Philip Matthew Hannan (1965-1989)

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  Francis Bible Schulte (1989-2001)

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  Alfred Clifton Hughes (2001-2009)

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  Gregory Michael Aymond (2009-present)

Arms of Auxiliary Bishops

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  Gustave Augustin Rouxel (1899-1908)

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  John Laval (1911-1937)

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  Louis Abel Caillouet (1947-1976)

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  Harold Robert Perry (1966-1991)

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  Stanley Joseph Ott (1976-1983)

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  Robert William Muench (1990-1996)

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  Dominic Carmon (1993-2006)

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  Gregory Michael Aymond (1997-2000)

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  Roger Paul Morin (2003-2009)

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  Shelton Joseph Fabre (2007-2013)

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  Fernand Joseph Cheri (2015-present)

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