Andrew Joseph McDonald

Andrew Joseph McDonald ( born October 24, 1923 in Savannah, Georgia, † April 1, 2014 in Palatine, Illinois) was Bishop of Little Rock.

Life

Andrew Joseph McDonald, the eleventh of twelve children, joined at the age of 13 years in the minor seminary of St. Charles College in Catonsville, Maryland, a. After studying at St. Mary Seminary in Baltimore he received on May 8, 1948, the ordination by the Bishop of Charleston, M. Emmet Walsh. After a study of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC 1951, he was at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome for Dr. iur. can. doctorate. He was in the Diocese of Savannah -Atlanta operates, among others, as Vicar General. In 1956 he became Pope Pius XII. appointed Monsignor; by Pope John XXIII. followed in 1959 was appointed Papal honor prelates.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on July 4, 1972 Bishop of Little Rock. The Archbishop of Louisville, Thomas Joseph McDonough, donated to him on September 5th of that year, the episcopal ordination; Philip Matthew Hannan were co-consecrators, Archbishop of New Orleans, and Gerard Louis Frey, Bishop of Savannah. The inauguration took place two days later.

On January 4, 2000, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related. From 2002 to 2013 he was chaplain of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Knights of the Holy grave in Jerusalem.