John Carberry

John Joseph Cardinal Carberry ( born July 31, 1904 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, † June 17, 1998 in Kirkwood, Missouri, USA) was Archbishop of Saint Louis.

Life

John Carberry was born as a child of James Joseph Carberry and his wife Mary Elizabeth, née O'Keefe, in Brooklyn. He studied at the Pontifical Academy of the Immaculate Conception in Rome and at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC Catholic theology and philosophy, and then received a doctorate in law. can .. On June 28, 1929, he received by Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani in Rome, the sacrament of Holy Orders.

He then worked as a pastor in the Diocese of Brooklyn and was occasionally teaches at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington (New York ) and Secretary of the Brooklyn Diocese Bishop Thomas E. Molloy. Pope Pius XII. conferred on him on February 3, 1948 Title secret chamberlain of His Holiness and on May 7, 1954 Title House Prelate of His Holiness.

On May 3, 1956, he was named Pius XII. Titular Bishop of Elis and the Coadjutor Bishop in the Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana. The bishop He was ordained on 25 July of the same year by the Brooklyn Auxiliary Bishop, Raymond Augustine Kearney. Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Trenton, George William Ahr, and John Benjamin Grellinger, Auxiliary Bishop of Green Bay.

After the death of the Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, John George Bennet, on 20 November 1957, he came to his successors. On January 20, 1965 Pope Paul VI appointed him. Bishop of Columbus and 14 February 1968 Archbishop of Saint Louis.

In the consistory of April 28, 1969 it took Paul VI. as cardinal priest with the titular church of San Giovanni Battista de ' Rossi in the College of Cardinals. Carberry was a participant in the August 1978 conclave that elected John Paul I, and the conclave October 1978, from the John Paul II emerged as the Pope. On July 31, 1979 John Paul II Carberrys adopted for reasons of age pre- mounted resignation.

John Carberry died at the age of 93 years and was buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of Saint Louis.