Joseph Rosati

Joseph Rosati CM ( born January 2, 1789 in Sora, Italy, † September 25, 1843 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States) was the first bishop of St. Louis.

Life

Joseph Rosati was born on January 2, 1789 in Sora ( Lazio ), Italy, Republic of Naples at that time. After completing his training in 1807, he put his religious profession as Vincentians in 1808. On February 10, 1811 Rosati was ordained a priest at the age of 22 years. In 1816 he traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, and a few years later he settled in Bardstown, Kentucky. He was professor of theology at St. Thomas ' Seminar 1817-1818. Afterwards he moved to Perryville, Missouri, where he opened the St. Mary's seminary. Planned a few years and he oversaw the construction of a school at which he taught most of the classes at the same time and also worked as a parish pastor. In 1820 he was appointed Head of the Vinzentinerordens in the USA.

On 13 August 1822 he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Mississippi and Alabama and one year later Coadjutor Bishop of Louisiana. He received his episcopal consecration of the Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas, Louis- Guillaume- Valentin Dubourg, on 25 March 1824. Two years later, on July 18, 1826, the appointment was made Apostolic Administrator of St. Louis, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana. For the first Bishop of St. Louis Rosati was appointed on 20 March 1827. As Apostolic Administrator of New Orleans, he resigned on August 4, 1829.

In Louisiana in 1828, he opened the St. Louis Hospital, which was led by the Sisters of Charity. In St. Louis, he sat down in 1829 for the construction of the Saint Louis University and began in 1831 with the construction of the first cathedral of the Diocese of St. Louis, which was completed in 1834. Commissioned in 1841 by Pope Gregory XVI. Rosati to lead the negotiations between the Pope and the nation of Haiti. After he sent the Pope a report on the negotiations, he died on September 25, 1843 at the age of 54 years.