# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mathias-loras
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:07:59.958Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mathias-loras"
name: "Mathias Loras"
slug: "mathias-loras"
description: "Pierre-Jean-Mathias Loras was a French Catholic priest in the United States who served as the first Bishop of Dubuque, in what would become the state of Iowa. He was the first president of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, from 1830 to 1832, and is the founder of what is now known as Loras College in Dubuque."
tagline: "Catholic bishop (1792-1858)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mathias_Loras_portrait-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1792-08-30"
deathDate: "1858-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.98
  momentum:             1.869565217391304
  historical:           6.143161333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean-Mathias_Loras"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ماتياس لوراس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Loras"
    title: "Mathias Loras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Loras"
    title: "Mathias Loras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Loras"
    title: "Mathias Loras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Loras"
    title: "Mathias Loras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Loras"
    title: "Mathias Loras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3298582"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump