Charles Asa Schleck
Charles Asa Schleck CSC (born July 5, 1925 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA ; † July 12, 2011 ) was a Curial Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church .
Life
Charles Asa Schleck attended Holy Cross Seminary in Notre Dame from 1939 to 1943. On August 15, 1943, he joined the Congregation of the Holy Cross at St. Joseph Novitiate in Rolling Prairie, Indiana. In 1948 he studied at the Angelicum in Rome and received on 22 December 1951 in the Lateran Basilica , the sacrament of Holy Orders . During further studies in Rome, he became a chaplain of the Notre Dame International School. In 1953 he received his doctorate as Doctor theologiae . In 1953/54 he taught at the University of Notre Dame , from 1954 to 1961 he was a professor at Holy Cross College in Washington, DC and from 1961 until it closed in 1968 at the Collegio de Santa Croce in Rome. He was then an advisor to the Sisters of Mercy congregation in Burlingame. In 1972 he was appointed Apostolic Visitator in Rome. In 1974 he entered the service of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and in 1986 was called to be its undersecretary.
On 10 February 1995 appointed him Pope John Paul II. To Titular Archbishop of Africa and ordered him to Offizial in the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. He received his episcopal ordination on April 1, 1995 in the Pontificio Collegio Urbano, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Jozef Tomko ; Co-consecrators were the Archbishops of the Curia Giovanni Battista Re and Josip Uhač . He worked in the Roman Curia as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and from 1995 President of the Pontifical Mission Societies .
In 2000 Pope John Paul II Schleck accepted his resignation due to reasons of age. He lived in the seat of his order in Rome, from 2007 in a house of his order in Notre Dame, Indiana.
Schleck was the author of several books on theology and numerous articles in various magazines. He was a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America.
Awards
- 2001: Honorary doctorate from the University of San Carlos in Cebu , Philippines
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| SURNAME | Schleck, Charles Asa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schleck, Charles Asa CSC; Schleck, Charles A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Curia Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee , Wisconsin, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 2011 |