James Aloysius Hickey
James Aloysius Cardinal Hickey ( born October 11, 1920 in Midland, Michigan, USA; † 24 October 2004 in Washington, DC) was Archbishop of Washington.
Life
James Aloysius Hickey studied in Detroit and Washington, the subjects philosophy and Catholic theology and received in June 1946, the sacrament of Holy Orders. Subsequently, he worked for one year as a pastor for the Spanish -speaking immigrants, before he was sent to doctoral studies in Rome, where he canon law and earned a PhD in in Catholic theology. After his return to the United States he worked from 1957 to 1966 as secretary to the bishop of Saginaw. He participated as an expert at the Second Vatican Council. Pope Paul VI. conferred him on October 31, 1963 the title of Pontifical domestic prelates.
On April 14, 1967 he received after his appointment as Titular Bishop of Taraqua and Auxiliary Bishop of Saginaw consecrated bishop by John Francis Cardinal Dearden. Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Saginaw, Stephen Stanislaus Woznicki, and Bishop Stephen Aloysius Leven of San Antonio. In the following two years he was auxiliary bishop of Saginaw, 1969 to 1974, he served as rector of the Pontifical North American College for the students in Rome. From 1974 to 1980 James Aloysius Hickey drew as bishop of the Diocese of the fortunes of Cleveland. June 17, 1980, Pope John Paul II appointed Archbishop of Washington.
In addition to the obligations in his dioceses, he held various positions with the U.S. Bishops' Conference. The College of Cardinals, he belonged since 28 June 1988 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria Madre del Redentore a Tor Bella Monaca. From the direction of the Archdiocese of Washington, he was entpflichtet grounds of age in 2000. On suffering pneumonia, he died four years later in a hospital in Washington DC Cardinal Hickey was buried in St. Matthew 's Cathedral.