William Henry Elder

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William Henry Elder

William Henry Elder (born March 22, 1819 in Baltimore , Maryland , † October 31, 1904 ) was an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church .

He was the son of Basil Elder and Miles Elder, née Snowden, grandson of Thomas Elder and descendant of William Elder (1681–1714), a Catholic immigrant from England. His grandmother was Elisabeth Spalding. This makes him a cousin of Caterine Spalding , the co-founder of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth .

From 1831 he attended Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg , which was led by John Baptist Purcell , who later became the second bishop of Cincinnati . In 1837 he graduated from school and entered St. Mary's Seminary. In 1842 he was sent to the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide , where he completed his doctorate.

On March 29, 1846, he became a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore and returned as a professor at St. Mary's Seminary.

Pope Pius IX appointed him on January 9, 1857 as the successor to the late James Oliver Van de Velde Bishop of Natchez . Francis Patrick Kenrick , Archbishop of Baltimore , donated him episcopal ordination in Baltimore on May 3, 1857. Co- consecrators were John McGill , Bishop of Richmond, and James Frederick Wood , Coadjutor Bishop of Philadelphia . His bishopric spanned the entire state of Mississippi . During the American Civil War he had some conflicts with the military and was imprisoned in Vidalia for a few weeks . He took part in the First Vatican Council as a council father.

After contracting yellow fever , Pope Leo XIII took. on July 13, 1878, resigned as Bishop of Natchez and appointed him titular Bishop of Hauara . On January 30, 1880, Leo XIII appointed him Coadjutor Archbishop of Cincinnati. John Baptist Purcell died on July 4, 1183, and succeeded him as Archbishop of Cincinnati. At that time the diocese had financial difficulties. He reopened the Mount Saint Mary Seminary, which had been closed since 1879, in 1887. He died of the flu in 1904 and was buried in St. Joseph Cemetery , Cincinnati .

The Elder High School in Cincinnati is named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Henry Elder. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  2. ^ Bishop William Henry Elder. Retrieved June 28, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Henry Elder. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ r2WPadmin: Elder, William Henry. Retrieved June 28, 2020 (American English).
  5. ^ Roger Antonio Fortin, Faith and Action: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1821-1996 . Ohio State University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8142-0904-2 ( google.de [accessed June 28, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Elder, William Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bishop
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1904