John Joseph Kain

John Joseph Cain ( born May 31, 1841 in Martinsburg, Virginia, † October 13, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of St. Louis.

Life

After finishing school in Catonsville, Maryland, who was born in what is now West Virginia John Joseph Cain his studies in theology and philosophy at Mary's College began. On 2 July 1866, he was ordained at the age of 25 years by Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan priest. He was employed as a chaplain in Harpers Ferry and also assisted some communities in West Virginia and Virginia. During this time he built the churches of Harpers Ferry, Martinsburg, Winchester and Berkeley Springs on again, which had been destroyed during the civil war.

Pope Pius IX. appointed Cain on February 12, 1875 Bishop of Wheeling. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Baltimore, James Roosevelt Bayley, on May 23 at St. James Cathedral in Wheeling. Co-consecrators were the bishop of the diocese of Wilmington, Thomas Albert Andrew Becker, and the Bishop of Richmond, James Gibbons.

In the Diocese of Wheeling he had three dozen priests and 20,000 Catholics under his jurisdiction. In 1879 he built a Gothic chapel in Mt Calvary Cemetery in memory of Bishop Whelan, in which the bishops Donahue, McDonnell, Archbishop Swint and Hodges are buried. In 1882 he held a diocesan synod, to which a fund has been set up for older priests; In 1887 he convened a synod more.

Pope Leo XIII. appointed him on 21 May 1893 Koadjutorerzbischof of St. Louis and Titular Archbishop of Oxyrynchus. On May 21, 1895 Peter Richard Kenrick put, Archbishop of St. Louis, from his office on the same day Cain was introduced as the new Archbishop of St. Louis. Cain was the first Archbishop of St. Louis, who was born in the USA.

On October 13, 1903 Cain died at the age of 62 years in St. Louis.

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