Thaddeus Amat y Brusi


Thaddeus Amat y Brusi

Bishop of Monterey-Los Angeles
Portrait of Bishop Thaddeus Amat at the San Fernando Mission in California
Native name
Tadeu Amat i Brusi
ProvinceSan Francisco
DioceseMonterey-Los Angeles
Orders
OrdinationDecember 23, 1837
by Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen
ConsecrationMarch 12, 1854
by Giacomo Filippo Fransoni
Personal details
Born(1811-12-31)December 31, 1811
DiedMay 12, 1878(1878-05-12) (aged 67)
Los Angeles, California,
United States
BuriedCathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, California, United States
NationalitySpanish
Styles of
Thaddeus Amat
Reference styleThe Right Reverend
Spoken styleYour Excellency
Religious styleHis Excellency
Posthumous stylenone

Thaddeus Amat y Brusi CM, or in Spanish Tadeu Amat y Brusi (Catalan: Tadeu Amat i Brusi; December 31, 1811 – May 12, 1878) was a Spanish Roman Catholic cleric who became the first Bishop of Los Angeles, in California.[1]

  1. ^ Wikisource Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Amat, Thaddeus". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 100.