Bishop of Winona from 1969 to 1986. Loras Watters was born in Dubuque, Iowa, the son of Martin and Carolyn (Sisler) Watters. He was a sick child at birth and...

American interviewer and television host Loras Joseph Watters (1915–2009), American Roman Catholic bishop Lu Watters (1911–1989), American trumpeter and bandleader...

1832, and is the founder of what is now known as Loras College in Dubuque. Pierre-Jean-Mathias Loras was born to an aristocratic family in Lyon, France...

Diocese of Winona. "Bishop Loras Joseph Watters [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 10 October 2023. "Watters, Former Winona Bishop...

1857, at Loras's request, Pius IX appointed Reverend Clement Smyth, a Trappist priest, to assist Loras as a coadjutor bishop. In early 1858, Loras started...

later served as United States Attorney for the District of Oregon Loras Joseph Watters, Roman Catholic bishop Westel W. Willoughby, educator John T. Adams...

and Mary Anna (Kuennen) Schmitt, Schmitt studied at Columbia College (now Loras College) in Dubuque, Iowa and graduated in 1932. He then studied in Rome...

via Newspapers.com. "Bishop Loras T. Lane". Diocese of Rockford. Retrieved April 9, 2019. David M. Cheney. "Bishop Loras Thomas Lane". Catholic-Hierarchy...

Mary (B.V.M.) were invited to move to the Dubuque area by Bishop Mathias Loras. They moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a wooded area in nearby Table...

from the history of the church in Dubuque – such as the arrival of Bishop Loras at Dubuque, and the building of the first cathedral. On the western side...