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Pope Telesphorus (Greek: Τελεσφόρος) was the bishop of Rome from c. 126 to his death c. 137, during the reigns of Roman Emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. Telesphorus is traditionally considered as the eighth Bishop of Rome in succession after Peter .
The pope named Bishop John Joseph Hogan from the Diocese of St. Joseph as the first bishop of Kansas City. [8] The Jesuit Order opened Rockhurst College in Kansas City in 1910. [ 9 ] In 1919, Bishop Thomas Francis Lillis from the Diocese of Leavenworth was named by Pope Pius X as coadjutor bishop to assist Hogan.
The second archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas was Bishop Ignatius Strecker from the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, appointed by Pope Paul VI in 1969. [18] In 1990, Strecker established background and reference checks for all persons working with children, including employees and volunteers, at the archdiocese as part of a policy to ...
On August 29, 1956, Pope Pius XII merged the western part of the Diocese of St. Joseph with the northern part of Diocese of Kansas City to form the Diocese of Kansas City–St. Joseph. [3] The rest of what was the Kansas City Diocese became part of the newly established Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau. As a result, the Diocese of Kansas ...
St. Teresa's Academy was founded in 1866 at 12th and Washington in Kansas City's Quality Hill area and is sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. It is the oldest school in Kansas City. [citation needed] In 1909 the Sisters relocated St. Teresa's to a 20-acre (81,000 m 2) site at 5600 Main.
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The original college at this location, St. Mary's College, was founded by the Jesuits in 1848 as an Indian mission. [2] The school is the site of the first cathedral west of the Missouri River and east of the Rockies, [3] the 1851 "log cathedral" of Bishop John Baptist Miège, S.J., Apostolic Vicar of Kansas under Pope Pius IX known familiarly as "The Bishop East of the Rockies".