November 1, 1846

The first Cathedral of St. Andrew was dedicated by Arkansas’s first Catholic bishop, Andrew Byrne. Though he had few priests working under him during his tenure as bishop, he nonetheless managed to plant the Catholic faith deeply enough that it survived both the Civil War and his death in 1862, which resulted in the five-year absence of any bishop in Arkansas.

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