F. Joseph Gossman

Francis Joseph Gossman ( born April 1, 1930 in Baltimore, † August 12, 2013 ) was Bishop of Raleigh.

Life

Joseph Gossman attended the Saint Charles College in Ellicott City, Maryland, and studied philosophy and theology at Saint Mary 's Seminary in Baltimore. After his Bachelor 1952 he studied at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He received on 17 December 1955 in Rome by Martin John O'Connor, rector of North American College, the priesthood, and finished his studies in 1956 at the Pontifical Gregorian University with a degree in Theology ( STL). In 1959 he was at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC doctorate in canon law.

He was at the National Shrine Basilica of the Assumption active in Baltimore and in 1968 was vice-chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and a member of the faculty of St. Mary's Seminary and chaplain of the Maryland General Hospital. In 1965 he was called by Pope Paul VI. the Papal Chamberlain ( Monsignor ) appointed. He was an administrator of the Cathedral of Mary Queen in Baltimore in 1968.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on July 15, 1968 Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore and Titular Bishop of Aguntum. The Archbishop of Baltimore, Lawrence Joseph Cardinal Shehan, gave him on 11 September 1968, Queen Mary 's Cathedral, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Thomas Austin Murphy, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, and Thomas Joseph Mardaga, Bishop of Wilmington. He was Episcopal Vicar for Baltimore.

On April 8, 1975, he was by Pope Paul VI. appointed the fourth Bishop of Raleigh. On 8 June 2006, Pope Benedict XVI. its age-related resignation.

Work

Gossman was involved in the African American community in his diocese. In 1963 he participated in Martin Luther King's march on Washington for some work and freedom. At a meeting convened by Gossman Diocesan Conference was founded in 1978 a Black Ministry, from the 1982 African American Ministry and Evangelization ( " AAMEN Office " ) emerged.

In 1991, he was the initiator of the North Carolina Lutheran - Roman Catholic Covenant, which founded the dioceses of Raleigh and Charlotte with the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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