Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (died 1888)

Jean-Baptiste Lamy

French Catholic bishop in the United States

Jean-Baptiste Lamy, was a French-American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career, as is Paul Horgan's nonfiction work Lamy of Santa Fe. He sometimes…