FATHER JAMES CHRYSYOSTOM BOUCHARD
1823 - 1889
High up on the list of pioneer clerics who served well in the successive jurisdiction of the Vicariate of Marysville, the Diocese of Grass Valley and the Diocese of Sacramento is the name of James Chrysostom Bouchard, SJ who had the distinction of being the first American Indian ordained to the priesthood in the United States. The one to be known as the “Eloquent Indian” was born in a Delaware Indian village near Leavenworth, Kansas. Quite an interesting story, indeed: starting in a Kansas wigwam and finishing in the City by the Golden Gate.
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