Joseph Bernardin
Joseph Louis Cardinal Bernardin (born April 2, 1928 in Columbia , South Carolina , USA , † November 14, 1996 in Chicago ) was an American clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati and Chicago .
Life
Joseph Bernardin, the son of Italian immigrants, studied in Charleston , Baltimore , New York City and Washington trays Catholic theology and philosophy . He received his doctorate for a doctor of theology and received on 26 April 1952, the sacrament of Holy Orders . He then worked as a pastor , teacher and vicar general in Columbia. Pope John XXIII awarded him the title of Papal House Prelate in 1962.
On March 9, 1966, Pope Paul VI appointed him . as auxiliary bishop in Atlanta and titular bishop of Lugura . He received episcopal ordination on April 26th of the same year by the Archbishop of Atlanta, Paul John Hallinan . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Charleston , Ernest Leo Unterkoefler , and the Rector of the Pontifical North America College , Bishop Francis Frederick Reh . In 1968 he became an Apostolic Administrator of the vacant Bishopric of Atlanta. In the same year, Bernardin became general secretary of the American Bishops' Conference, which he remained until 1972. In late 1972, Joseph Bernardin became Archbishop of Cincinnati . From 1974 to 1977 Bernardin was chairman of the Bishops' Conference of the United States .
After ten years as a metropolitan in Cincinnati, he became Archbishop of Chicago on August 25, 1982. In the consistory of February 2, 1983, Pope John Paul II accepted him as a cardinal priest with the titular church Gesù Divin Lavoratore in the college of cardinals . In June 1995 he was operated on for the first time for pancreatic cancer . At the end of August 1996 it became known that the disease was incurable. Joseph Louis Bernardin died in Chicago on November 14 of the same year and was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside) .
Honors
On 9 September 1996 handed US President Bill Clinton Bernardin, the Medal of Freedom ( "The Presidential Medal of Freedom"), the highest civilian honor in the United States. In 1985 he received the Pacem in Terris Award .
literature
- Eugene C. Kennedy: Cardinal Bernardin. Easing conflict and battling for the soul of American Catholicism . Chicago 1989, ISBN 0933893981
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Bernardin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bernardin, Joseph. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed June 8, 2019.
- Entry on Joseph Bernardin on catholic-hierarchy.org
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Francis Leibold |
Archbishop of Cincinnati 1972–1982 |
Daniel Edward Pilarczyk |
| John Cardinal Cody |
Archbishop of Chicago 1982–1996 |
Francis Cardinal George OMI |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernardin, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bernardin, Joseph Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American clergyman, Archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Columbia, South Carolina , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1996 |
| Place of death | Chicago |