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In 1875, he was made coadjutor bishop of St. Paul and in 1884 he became bishop ordinary. [3] In 1888 he became archbishop with the elevation of his diocese and the erection of the ecclesiastical province of Saint Paul. [7] Ireland retained this title for 30 years until his death in 1918. Before Ireland died he burned all his personal papers. [8]
The following is the list of bishops of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. The Roman Catholic Church in the United States comprises 195 dioceses led by diocesan bishops . Auxiliary bishops serve in association with the diocesan bishops in larger dioceses.
Bishop John Joseph Hogan (May 10, 1829 – February 21, 1913) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Joseph in Missouri (1868 to 1880) and the first bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City in Missouri (1880 to 1913).
Peter Richard Kenrick (August 17, 1806 – March 4, 1896) was an Irish Catholic priest who served as Bishop of St. Louis from 1843 to 1895. The see was made an archdiocese in 1847, when he was called as the first archbishop west of the Mississippi River. The archdiocese covered nearly all the territory of the Louisiana Purchase. He served in ...
Pages in category "Roman Catholic archbishops of St. Louis" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The St. Louis chapter of the Midwest Clergy Conference on Negro Welfare, formed locally in 1938, pushed the all-female Webster College to integrate first. However, in 1943, Glennon blocked the enrollment of a young black woman at the college by speaking privately with the Kentucky -based superior of the Sisters of Loretto , which staffed the ...
On October 20, 1984, Leibrecht was appointed the fifth bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau by Pope John Paul II. Leibrecht received his episcopal consecration at Immaculate Conception Church in Springfield, Missouri, on December 12, 1984, from Archbishop John May, with Archbishop Bernard Law and Bishop Glennon Flavin serving as co-consecrators ...
One of the new dioceses was the Diocese of St. Louis, which included Missouri along with vast areas of the American Midwest and Great Plains. [3] Because of its size, the diocese was often referred to as the Rome of the West. [16] Leo XII named Rosati as the first bishop of St. Louis. [15] In 1827, Rosati transferred Saint Louis College to the ...