William Thomas Russell

William Thomas Russell ( born October 20, 1863 in Baltimore, USA, † March 18, 1927 in Charleston, South Carolina) was Bishop of Charleston.

Life

William Thomas Russell attended St. Charles College in Ellicott City and the Loyola College. Then Russell studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Pontifical North American College in Rome and at St. Mary 's Seminary in Baltimore. He received on June 21, 1889 by the Archbishop of Baltimore, James Cardinal Gibbons, the sacrament of Holy Orders.

Russell was pastor of the parish of St. James in Hyattsville, Maryland. At the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC he earned a licentiate in Catholic theology. In 1894, William Thomas Russell 's private secretary James Cardinal Gibbons. 1908 Russell pastor of St. Patrick in Washington, DC 1911, the honorary title of Pontifical domestic prelates, he was awarded by Pope Pius X..

On December 7, 1916 Pope Benedict XV appointed him. Bishop of Charleston. The Archbishop of Baltimore, James Cardinal Gibbons, gave him on 19 March 1917, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Wilmington, John James Joseph Monaghan, and the Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Owen Patrick Bernard Corrigan.