Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Archdiocese of Mobile (Latin: Archidiœcesis Mobiliensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in southern Alabama in the United States. It is the metropolitan see of the Province of Mobile , which includes the suffragan bishopric sees of the Diocese of Biloxi , the Diocese of Jackson , and the ...
Pope Benedict XVI named Rodi the archbishop of Mobile on April 2, 2008, [3] replacing Bishop Oscar Lipscomb. Rodi was installed there on June 6, 2008. [1] He was the second archbishop of Mobile, a diocese raised to the dignity of an archdiocese in 1980. [8]
Lipscomb attended high school in Mobile, before studying for the priesthood in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1956 and served in the Archdiocese of Mobile as a parish priest and teacher. He became chancellor of the archdiocese in 1966, and was consecrated as a bishop fourteen years later. He retired as bishop in 2008.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile is a Metropolitan Archdiocese encompassing the southern half of Alabama, USA. Subcategories.
William Houck was born in Mobile, Alabama, on July 26, 1926.He was ordained a priest by Archbishop Thomas Toolen on May 19, 1951, for the Archdiocese of Mobile. [1]On March 28, 1979, Houck was named auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Jackson and titular bishop of Alexanum by Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. [1]
Feb. 20—An archdiocese-maintained list of Catholic clergy members who have been deemed "credibly accused" of sexual abuse in Northern New Mexico parishes should also include others named by ...
John Lawrence May (March 31, 1922 – March 24, 1994) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois from 1967 to 1969, as bishop of the Diocese of Mobile in Alabama from 1969 to 1980 and as archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis in Missouri from 1980 to 1992.
It was erected on December 9, 1969, with territory from what is now the Archdiocese of Mobile. The Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Mobile. The Cathedral of Saint Paul, in Birmingham, Alabama serves as the Episcopal see of the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama.