James Trobec was the third Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud

Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud is a Roman Catholic diocese in Minnesota. It was founded on September 22, 1889, out of territory that had been evangelized by the missionary priest Father Francis Xavier Pierz...

, in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.

Born in Slovenia, Trobec was ordained a priest on September 8, 1865. On July 5, 1897, Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII , born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903...

appointed Trobec Bishop of the Saint Cloud Diocese and he was ordained a bishop on September 21, 1897; Bishop Trobec retired on April 15, 1915.