Charles Albert Buswell

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Charles Albert Buswell (born October 15, 1913 in Homestead , Blaine County , Oklahoma , USA , † June 14, 2008 in Pueblo , Colorado , USA) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Pueblo .

Life

Charles Albert Buswell first attended the school of the Benedictine in Atchison and studied at the Seminary St. Louis Preparatory Seminary in Webster Groves , at Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis and from 1936 at the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Leuven , Belgium . He was ordained a priest on July 9, 1939 for the Diocese of Oklahoma City-Tulsa . After pastoral careers in Oklahoma City , he became vicar general in 1947 . Pope John XXIII appointed him chaplain to His Holiness in 1949 and Honorary Prelate of His Holiness in 1955 .

On August 8, 1959, he was by Pope John XXIII. appointed second bishop of Pueblo. He received his episcopal ordination from Victor Joseph Reed , Bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa, on September 30 of the same year; Co-consecrators were Stephen Aloysius Leven , auxiliary bishop in San Antonio and Glennon Patrick Flavin , auxiliary bishop in Saint Louis . He was a participant in the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 . Pope John Paul II granted his resignation on September 19, 1979.

In the 1960s and 1970s he campaigned for an end to racism and for social justice. He was a pioneer of the Catholic lay movement and enabled laypeople to study theology as well as subsequent pastoral activities . In 2003 he took part in an anti-war demonstration .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Buswell, former bishop of Pueblo, dead at 94 , The Denver Post, June 15, 2008
predecessor Office successor
Joseph Clement Willging Bishop of Pueblo
1959–1979 		Arthur Nicholas Tafoya
personal data
SURNAME Buswell, Charles Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman, Roman Catholic Bishop of Pueblo
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Homestead , Blaine County, Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2008
Place of death Pueblo