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James Blenk
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James Hubert Herbert Blenk, S.M. (July 28, 1856 – April 20, 1917) was a German American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Puerto Rico (1899–1906) and Archbishop of New Orleans (1906–1917).
James Blenk was born in Edenkoben, Rhenish Palatinate, to James and Catherine (née Wiedemann) Blenk. Born and raised in a Protestant family, he was the youngest of seventeen children and also a twin but his twin brother died at six months. In 1866 he and his family emigrated from Germany and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. His parents died only some weeks later and the orphan James Blenk was brought up in a Catholic family. Converting to Catholicism at age 12, Blenk was baptized at St. Alphonsus Church in 1869 and later confirmed by Archbishop Napoléon-Joseph Perché.
After completing his primary education in New Orleans, he entered Jefferson College (in Convent, Louisiana), eventually joining the Society of Mary (more commonly known as the Marist Fathers) 1878. He was then sent to the Marist House of Studies in Belley, France, and completed his probationary studies at the novitiate in Lyons before being sent to further his studies at the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin. In Ireland, he taught mathematics at St. Mary's College, Dundalk (1881–82).
Blenk was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Francis Redwood on August 16, 1885. Upon his return to Louisiana in October 1885, he served as professor of humanities, rhetoric, philosophy, mathematics, and natural science at his alma mater of Jefferson College, where he later served as president from 1891 to 1897. In 1896, at the invitation of the superior general of the Marist Fathers, he visited all the houses of that religious institute in Europe. He returned to New Orleans in February 1897, and was named rector of the Church of the Holy Name of Mary in Algiers. When Archbishop Placide Louis Chapelle was chosen as Apostolic Delegate to Cuba and the Apostolic Nunciature to the Philippines in 1899, Blenk became auditor and secretary of the Apostolic Delegation.
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