Charles Asa Schleck

Charles Asa Schleck (CSC born July 5, 1925 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, † July 12, 2011 ) was an Archbishop Curia of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Charles Asa Schleck attended from 1939 to 1943, the Holy Cross Seminary at Notre Dame. On 15 August 1943, he joined the Congregation of the Holy Cross in St. Joseph Novitiate in Rolling Prairie, Indiana, at. In 1948 he studied at the Angelicum in Rome and received on 22 December 1951 in the Lateran Basilica, the sacrament of Holy Orders. While further studies in Rome, he engaged as chaplain of Notre Dame International School. In 1953 he was awarded his doctorate for Doctor Theologiae. 1953/54, he taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1954 to 1961 he was a professor at Holy Cross College in Washington, DC and from 1961 until its closure in 1968 at the Collegio de Santa Croce in Rome. Subsequently, he was consultant to the Congregation Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame. He was appointed apostolic visitor in Rome in 1972. In 1974 he entered the service of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and was appointed in 1986 to the Under Secretary.

On 10 February 1995, Pope John Paul II appointed Titular Archbishop of Africa and ordered him to the Officer in the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. He received his episcopal consecration on April 1, 1995 at the Pontifical Urban College Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Jozef Tomko; Co-consecrators were the Curia Archbishops Giovanni Battista Re and Josip Uhač. He served as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 1995 and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the Roman Curia.

2000, Pope John Paul II Schleck on the grounds of age pre- mounted resignation. He lived in the seat of his Order in Rome, from 2007, in a house of his order at Notre Dame, Indiana.

Schleck was the author of several books on theology and numerous articles in various journals. He was a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

Awards

2001: Honorary doctorate from the University of San Carlos in Cebu, Philippines