Edward Aloysius Mooney

Edward Aloysius Cardinal Mooney ( born May 9, 1882 in Mount Savage, USA, † October 25, 1958 in Rome) was archbishop of Detroit.

Life

Edward Aloysius Mooney received his theological and philosophical education in Ellicott City, Baltimore and Rome. He received on 10 April 1909, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a lecturer at the Department of Cleveland. From 1916 to 1922 he headed the Pontifical Latin school at the same place. In the years 1923-1926 Edward Aloysius Mooney served as rector of the Pontifical North American clergyman College in Rome.

Pope Pius XI. awarded him in 1925 the title of a house prelate of His Holiness and appointed him on 18 January 1926 Titular Archbishop of Irenopolis in Isauria and apostolic delegate in eastern India, headquartered in Bangalore. The bishop ordained Edward Aloysius Mooney by the prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, Cardinal Wilhelmus Marinus van Rossum. From 1931 to 1933 he was Apostolic Delegate in Japan. On August 28, 1933, the Pope appointed him Bishop of Rochester, while maintaining the personal title of archbishop. On May 26, 1937, he was appointed Archbishop of Detroit.

Pope Pius XII. took him on 18 February 1946 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Susanna on the College of Cardinals.

Edward Aloysius Mooney died on October 25, 1958 in Rome, a few hours before the beginning of the conclave. He was buried in the crypt of St. John's Seminary in Detroit. When the seminary was closed in 1988, transferred to his bones in a grave in a cemetery in Detroit.

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