Albert Gregory Meyer

Albert Gregory Cardinal Meyer ( born March 9, 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, † 9 April 1965, Chicago) was Archbishop of Chicago.

Life

Gregory Albert Meyer, the son of a German immigrant couple who went to school in Milwaukee and studied in Milwaukee and Rome, the subjects Catholic theology and philosophy. On 11 July 1926 he was in Rome by Cardinal Vicar Basilio Pompilj the sacrament of Holy Orders and his PhD there in 1930 as a doctor of theology.

From 1930 he was a chaplain in Waukesha. From 1931 to 1946 he taught at the Seminary of Milwaukee, which he headed as rain from 1937. On February 14, 1938 he was awarded by Pope Pius XI. the title of a house Prelate of His Holiness.

On February 18, 1946, he was named by Pope Pius XII. Bishop of Superior. He received the episcopal ordination of Archbishop Moses Elias Kiley. Pius XII. appointed Albert Meyer on July 21, 1953 to the Archbishop of Milwaukee. On September 19, 1958, he was appointed archbishop of Chicago. Pope John XXIII. took him on 14 December 1959 as cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Cecilia to the College of Cardinals. Albert Meyer took in the years 1962 to 1965 participated in the first three sessions of the Second Vatican Council. He died after a heart attack at Mercy Hospital to Chicago and was buried in the cemetery of Mundelein seminary in the Archdiocese of Chicago.