Samuel Stritch

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Samuel Alphonse Cardinal Stritch
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Samuel Alphonse Cardinal Stritch (born August 17, 1887 in Nashville , Tennessee , USA , † May 27, 1958 in Rome ) was Archbishop of Chicago and later a Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Samuel Stritch studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Cincinnati and Rome . He received the sacrament of ordination by Curia Cardinal Pietro Respighi in Rome on May 21, 1909, and then worked as a parish chaplain in the Diocese of Nashville . In 1916 and 1917 he was personal secretary to the Bishop of Nashville Thomas Sebastian Byrne , and from 1917 to 1921 Diocesan Chancellor.

In 1921 Pope Benedict XV awarded him . the title of Pontifical House Prelate, and on August 10 of the same year appointed him Bishop of Toledo , Ohio . He was ordained episcopal by the Archbishop of Cincinnati , Henry Moeller , on November 30, 1921. Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Little Rock , John Baptist Morris , and the Bishop of Brooklyn , Thomas Edmund Molloy .

Pope Pius XI appointed Samuel Alphonse Stritch on August 26, 1930 Archbishop of Milwaukee , Pope Pius XII. transferred to him on December 27, 1939 the direction of the Archdiocese of Chicago and took him on February 18, 1946 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura in the college of cardinals . On March 1, 1958, Pope Pius XII appointed him. as Pro-Prefect of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide . Samuel Alphonse Stritch died on May 26, 1958 as a result of an operation and was buried in the Episcopal Mausoleum of the Archdiocese of Chicago at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside) .

Honors

literature

  • Marie Cecilia Buehrle: The Cardinal Stritch story . Milwaukee 1959
  • Francis Beauchesne Thornton: Our American princes. The story of the seventeen American cardinals . New York 1963
  • Bernard Code: Dictionary of the American Hierarchy (1789–1964) . New York 1964, pp. 278-279

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predecessor Office successor
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi Pro-Prefect of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide
1958 		Cardinal Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian
George Cardinal Mundelein Archbishop of Chicago
1939–1958 		Albert Cardinal Meyer
Sebastian Gebhard Messmer Archbishop of Milwaukee
1930–1939 		Moses Elias Kiley
Joseph Schrembs Bishop of Toledo, Ohio
1921–1930 		Karl Joseph Alter
personal data
SURNAME Stritch, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stritch, Samuel Alphonse (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman, Archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , USA
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1958
Place of death Rome