1. Frederick Rese was a German-born American Roman Catholic bishop who served as the first Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Detroit from 1833 until his death.
13 Facts About Frederick Rese
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Frederick Rese was apprenticed to a tailor and worked as a journeyman before joining the Hanoverian cavalry in 1813 to fight against Napoleon in the German Campaign and took part in the 1815 Battle of Waterloo under command of Field Marshal Blucher.
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Frederick Rese went to Rome with the impression that his lack of education might be balanced by a willingness to work in foreign missions.
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Frederick Rese received Holy Orders from Cardinal Vicar Placido Zurla on 15 March 1823.
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Frederick Rese served in the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and in 1824 met with Edward Fenwick, first Bishop of Cincinnati, who had travelled to Rome to ask Pope Leo XII for support.
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The Pope engaged Frederick Rese to assist him; once arrived in the United States, he became vicar general of the Cincinnati diocese, which included Detroit.
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On March 8,1833, Father Frederick Rese was named to be the first bishop of Detroit with a papal bull in which Pope Gregory XVI declared as he erected the Diocese of Detroit.
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Father Frederick Rese would be the first German-born bishop in the United States.
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Father Frederick Rese desired to be consecrated by Bishop Joseph Rosati of St Louis, and he deferred the event until Bishop Rosati should pass through Cincinnati on his way to the Second Provincial Council of Baltimore.
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On January 7,1834, Bishop Frederick Rese made his entry into Detroit to take possession of his see at Ste.
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About 1840 Frederick Rese became demented; uncapable to fulfil his office, he was recalled to Rome.
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Frederick Rese finally retired to a nursery home of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Hildesheim.
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Frederick Rese was succeeded by his compatriot Caspar Henry Borgess.