1. Louis Charles Casartelli was an English Catholic priest and was the fourth Bishop of Salford.
15 Facts About Louis Casartelli
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Louis Casartelli was believed to have been considered an intelligent boy, as well as displaying a pious attitude, something which was felt he learned from his mother.
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Louis Casartelli subsequently went on to study at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw where he won a gold medal for classics as well earning an MA degree externally from the University of London in 1873.
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Louis Casartelli was an avid diary keeper, often writing in several languages on the one page.
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Louis Casartelli was ordained to the priesthood on 10 September 1876 by the then Bishop of Salford Herbert Vaughan.
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Louis Casartelli was seconded to the teaching staff of St Bede's College, Manchester although in 1884 he returned once more to the University of Louvain and gained a doctorate in Oriental literature.
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Louis Casartelli was lecturer in Iranian languages in the University of Manchester, and was invited to give the Katrak lecture in Iranian studies at Oxford University but although he accepted, in the event he was unable to give the lecture due to illness.
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On 28 August 1903 Louis Casartelli was appointed Bishop of Salford but wrote to Rome begging to decline.
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Louis Casartelli's appeal was rejected and he wrote to Abbot Francis Aidan Gasquet OSB "if the wish did not sound rather an impiety one could almost desire that Cardinal Gotti might have held me suspect of Liberalism and other dreadful things".
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Louis Casartelli was consecrated in St John's Cathedral, on 21 September 1903 by Archbishop-elect Francis Bourne, with Bishops Thomas Whiteside and Samuel Webster Allen as co-consecrators.
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Bishop Louis Casartelli was one of the first bishops in England to attempt concerted Catholic Action.
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Louis Casartelli produced a monthly journal The Federationist and never failed to make a contribution on contemporary issues.
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Louis Casartelli became the founder and president of the Manchester Dante Society from 1906, The Catenian Association from 1908, Manchester Egyptian Association from 1908 to 1910, the president of the Manchester Statistical Society from 1898 to 1900 and a supporter of the Oriental, Geographical, Antiquarian and other societies.
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Louis Casartelli contributed a number of articles to the Catholic Encyclopedia.
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Bishop Louis Casartelli died at his residence at St Bede's College, Manchester on 18 January 1925, and is buried in St Joseph's Cemetery, Moston, Manchester.