Louis Abel Caillouet (August 2, 1900 – September 16, 1984) was a

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of the

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in the

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. He served as auxiliary bishop of the

Archdiocese of New Orleans The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans ( la, Archidioecesis Novae Aureliae, french: Archidiocèse de la Nouvelle-Orléans, es, Arquidiócesis de Nueva Orleans) is an ecclesiastical division of the Roman Catholic Church spanning Jefferson ...

from 1947 to 1976.

Biography

Born in

Thibodaux, Louisiana Thibodaux ( ) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. Thibodaux is a principal city ...

, Louis Caillouet was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of New Orleans on March 7, 1925. On August 2, 1947

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appointed him as the

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of ''Setea'' and Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans. He was consecrated a bishop by Archbishop Joseph Rummel on October 28, 1947. The principal co-consecrators were Bishops

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of Lafayette in Louisiana and Charles Greco of Alexandria in Louisiana. He participated in all four sessions of the

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from 1962 to 1965. Caillouet continued to serve as an auxiliary bishop until his resignation was accepted by

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on July 7, 1976. He died on September 16, 1984, at the age of 84. He is buried in St. Joseph Cemetery in Thibodaux.

References

Episcopal succession

1900 births 1984 deaths People from Thibodaux, Louisiana Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans 20th-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops Participants in the Second Vatican Council Roman Catholic bishops in Louisiana {{US-RC-bishop-stub