and, therefore, earnestly calling for your prayers, that I may obtain His Divine assistance, I come to be your chief pastor." Tobin's successor, Charles Thompson has continued the cause, but there has been no apparent movement on it, at least publicly. Reference Sources Simon Bruté profile, indianacatholic.mwweb.org Sister M.S.Godecker, Simon Bruté de Rémur, First Bishop of Vincennes'', Saint Meinrad, Indiana, 1931. External links Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana Official website 1779 births 1839 deaths Clergy from Rennes Seminary of Saint-Sulpice (France) alumni 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States French emigrants to the United States History of Catholicism in Indiana Mount St. Mary's University faculty Roman Catholic bishops of Vincennes St. Mary's Seminary and University faculty American Servants of God Burials at the St. Francis Xavier Cathedral and Library