Jude Speyrer

{{short description|American Roman Catholic bishop (1929-2013)}}

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| name = Jude Speyrer

| honorific-suffix = D.D.

| title = Bishop of Lake Charles

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| see = Diocese of Lake Charles

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| term = 1980–2001

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| successor = Edward Kenneth Braxton

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| ordination = July 25, 1953

| ordained_by = Maurice Schexnayder

| consecration = April 25, 1980

| consecrated_by = Gerard Louis Frey

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|04|14}}

| birth_place = Leonville, Louisiana, US

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|07|21|1929|04|14}}

| death_place = Opelousas, Louisiana, US

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| religion = Roman Catholic

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| honorific_prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend

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Jude Speyrer (April 14, 1929 – July 21, 2013) D.D. was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Lake Charles, Louisiana.[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bspeyrer.html Jude Speyrer profile at Catholic Hierarchy website]{{Self-published source|date=May 2015}}