Marion Francis Forst

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Marion Francis Forst (born September 3, 1910 in St. Louis , Missouri , USA , † June 2, 2007 in Kansas City (Kansas) , Kansas , USA) was Bishop of Dodge City and later Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.

Life

Marion Francis Forst was born in St. Louis as the eldest of eight children of Frank A. and Bertha T. (Gulath) Forst. After attending Catholic school in St. Louis, he entered the Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis in 1928 .

He was ordained a priest on June 10, 1934 by John Joseph Glennon and was active as a pastor in the Denver diocese and from 1936 in St. Louis and Glendale. In 1943 he moved as a chaplain to the Navy Chaplain School in Williamsburg and in the rank of "full lieutenant" on the cruiser USS San Juan . He survived attacks by Japanese kamikaze pilots and was involved in Operation Magic Carpet in Tokyo Bay . In 1946 he returned to St. Louis. In 1956 he became vicar general of the newly founded diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau . In 1957 he was appointed monsignor .

On January 2, 1960 he was by Pope John XXIII. appointed Bishop of Dodge City to succeed John Baptist Franz . He received his episcopal ordination on March 24th of the same year by the Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Charles Herman Helmsing . Co-consecrators the Bishop of goods Wichita , Mark Kenny Carroll and Leo Christopher Byrne , auxiliary bishop in Saint Louis .

He was a participant in the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965; his diary Daily Journal of Vatican II was later published. At the age of 66, he resigned as Bishop of Dodge City in 1976 and was named Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kansas City and Titular Bishop of Scala . In 1986, at the age of 76, he resigned from both offices. In 1995 he was named Titular Bishop of Leavenworth by Pope John Paul II .

Forst was the oldest living American bishop at the time and one of the few American participants in Vatican II. He died at the age of 96 from complications from a heart attack at Olathe Medical Center in Kansas City.

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predecessor Office successor
John Baptist Franz Bishop of Dodge City
1960–1976 		Eugene John Gerber
personal data
SURNAME Forst, Marion Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman, Bishop of the Diocese of Dodge City and Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , USA
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2007
Place of death Kansas City (Kansas) , Kansas , USA