Leo Haid

Abbot Bishop Leo Michael Haid (1914)

Leo Haid OSB (born July 15, 1849 in Latrobe as Michael Haid , Pennsylvania , USA ; † July 24, 1924 ) was an American Benedictine and Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina .

Life

After he had already attended the local monastery school, the son of German emigrants entered the novitiate of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Vincent in Latrobe in 1868 , where he was given the religious name Leo. On September 17, 1869, Leo Haid made his profession in St. Vincent. He received the sacrament of ordination on December 21, 1872.

Abbot Bonifaz Wimmer of St. Vincent sent Father Leo in 1874 together with ten other Benedictine monks to found a monastery in what was then Garibaldi in the state of North Carolina. In 1885 Leo Haid was elected the first abbot of the newly founded Belmont Abbey , "Maria, Hilfe der Christisten". In 1886 he founded the seminary and Belmont Abbey College there . On February 4, 1888, Pope Leo XIII appointed him . the titular bishop of Messene and Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina . The Archbishop of Baltimore , James Cardinal Gibbons , donated him episcopal ordination on July 1, 1888 ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Wheeling , John Joseph Kain , and the Bishop of Savannah , Thomas Andrew Becker (1832–1899). From 1890 to 1896 Abbot Bishop Leo Haid presided over the American-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation as Abbot Preses .

On June 8, 1910, Pope Pius X appointed him first abbot of Private Abbey of Belmont-Mary Help of Christians . Before it was elevated to a territorial abbey, he was the founding abbot of the monastery he founded in 1876.

Web links

• Entry on Leo Haid on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Leo Haid in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry Pinckney Northrop	Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina 1888–1924	William Joseph Hafey (Bishop of Raleigh)