sentences:  On October 7, 1884, he was appointed vicar apostolic of the Idaho Territory, after an eight-year interregnum following the resignation of fellow Belgian Louis Aloysius Lootens as vicar apostolic.He was consecrated bishop on April 19, 1885, by Archbishop James Gibbons in the Cathedral of the Assumption in Baltimore, while attending the Third Council of Baltimore.The diocese of Boise was erected on August 25, 1893, and Glorieux was appointed bishop of the newborn diocese.