John Edward Taylor (bishop of Stockholm)

John Edward Taylor, OMI, John E. Taylor, (* November 15, 1914 in East St. Louis, Illinois, USA, † September 9, 1976 in Stockholm) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm.

Life

After his high school graduation, John Edward Taylor joined the Congregation of the Oblates. He studied theology and a doctorate in 1940. During the same year he was ordained a priest of his religious congregation. He then worked in several parishes and as a missionary.

Bishop of Stockholm

On July 2, 1962, he was named by Pope John XXIII. Bishop of Stockholm. The episcopal ordination took place on September 21, 1962 held in the " Blue Hall " of the Stockholm City Hall and was broadcast on television. Principal consecrator was the Apostolic Delegate of Sweden Archbishop Bruno Bernard Heim, he assisted the bishop Jacques Mangers SM in Oslo and the auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of New York Fulton John Sheen.

Work

During his tenure, the Roman Catholic Church in Sweden grew to 30,000 Catholics with 73 priests zoom. In 1963 he opened, after the Reformation, the first Catholic monastery of the Carmelites in Glumslöv ( Landskrona (municipality ) ). In 1964 he was Mitkonsekrator by Paul Verschuren SCI Titular Bishop of Aquae Sirenses, who was appointed auxiliary bishop in Helsinki.

He put the decisions of the Second Vatican Council, in which he had participated, and performs the liturgy in the Swedish language. He had 1968 participants and representatives of the Catholic Church at the General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala. From 1970-1973 he was Chairman of the Nordic Bishops' Conference.