Antoine Blanc

The Most Reverend Antoine Blanc
Archbishop of New Orleans
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Archdiocese of New Orleans
See	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans
Installed	19 June 1835
Term ended	20 June 1860
Predecessor	Leo-Raymond de Neckere CM
Successor	Jean-Marie Odin CM
Orders
Ordination	22 July 1816 by Cardinal Joseph Fesch
Consecration	22 November 1835 by Joseph Rosati CM
Personal details
Born	(1792-10-11)11 October 1792 Sury-le-Comtal, Rhône-et-Loire, French First Republic
Died	20 June 1860(1860-06-20) (aged 67) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Buried	St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Antoine Blanc (11 October 1792 – 20 June 1860) was the fifth Bishop and first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans. His tenure, during which the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese, was at a time of growth in the city, which he matched with the most rapid church expansion in the history of New Orleans.^[1] More new parishes were established in New Orleans under his episcopacy than at any other time.