Jerome Hanus

Jerome Hanus OSB (born May 26, 1940 in Brainard , Nebraska , real name George Hanus) is old archbishop of Dubuque .

Life

George Hanus graduated from St. John Vianney Seminary in Elkhorn in 1958, joined the Benedictine order on entering the Conception Abbey in Missouri , made his profession on September 1, 1961, took the religious name Jerome and the Archbishop of Omaha , Gerald Thomas Bergan , consecrated him on July 30, 1966 priests . In 1963 he did his Bachelor of Arts at Conception Seminary College and in 1967, after further studies at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo, received a licentiate in theology. He taught scholasticism from 1967 to 1969 at Conception Seminary College. He received his Masters of Arts degree in moral theology from Princeton University in 1972 . He was then Professor of Religion at Conception Seminary from 1973 to 1976 and from 1974 to 1976 Adjunct Professor of Moral Theology at the Pontifical University of Sant'Anselmo in Rome. On January 5th, 1977 he was elected 6th Abbot of Conception by the convention and one day later he was appointed.

John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Saint Cloud on July 6, 1987 . He received episcopal ordination from the Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis , John Robert Roach , on August 24 of the same year; Co- consecrators were John Joseph Sullivan , Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph , and George Henry Speltz , Ex-Bishop of Saint Cloud.

On August 23, 1994, he was appointed coadjutor archbishop of Dubuque, and on October 27 of the same year he was appointed to the office. After retirement Daniel William Kucera OSB he followed him on 16 October 1995 as Archbishop of Dubuque. He resigned from his office on April 8, 2013.

Web links

• Entry on Jerome Hanus on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
George Henry Speltz	Bishop of Saint Cloud 1987-1994	John Francis Kinney
Daniel William Kucera OSB	Archbishop of Dubuque 1995-2013	Michael Owen Jackels