Stephen Badin
The Reverend Stephen Theodore Badin | |
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| Native name | Étienne Théodore Badin |
| Church | Catholic |
| Diocese | Baltimore |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 25 May 1793 by John Carroll |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 July 1768 |
| Died | 21 April 1853 (aged 84) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
Stephen Theodore Badin (born Étienne Théodore Badin; 17 July 1768 – 21 April 1853) was a French-American Catholic priest who was the first ordained in the United States. He spent most of his long career ministering to widely dispersed Catholics in Canada and in what became the states of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois.