John Joyce Russell

John Joyce Russell ( born December 1, 1897 in Baltimore, USA, † March 17, 1993 in Richmond, Virginia) was Bishop of Richmond.

Life

John Joyce Russell attended Calvert Hall College and Loyola High School. From 1912 to 1917 he attended St. Charles College in Ellicott City, Maryland. Russell acquired in 1919 at St. Mary 's Seminary in Baltimore a Master of Arts. He received on 8 July 1923, the sacrament of Holy Orders. 1923 John Joyce Russell received his doctorate at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome in Catholic theology.

From 1923 to 1937 John Joyce Russell curate at St. Martin Church. He was also from 1927 to 1946 diocesan director of Holy Name Catholic Evidence Guild and the Societes. In 1937, Russell pastor of St. Ursula in Baltimore. Pope Pius XII. awarded him in 1945 the honorary title of Pontifical domestic prelates. From 1946 to 1948 he was pastor of St. Patrick in Washington, DC and also from 1946 to 1950 diocesan director of Catholic Charities. In 1948, John Joyce Russell pastor at the Church of the Nativity.

On January 28, 1950, he was named by Pope Pius XII. Bishop of Charleston. The Apostolic Delegate in the United States, Archbishop Giovanni Cicognani Amleto, donated to him on 14 March of the same year the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Washington, Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle, and the Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, John Michael McNamara. On July 3, 1958, he was named Pius XII. Bishop of Richmond. The official launch took place on 30 September of the same year.

Russell attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council.

On April 28, 1973, Pope Paul VI. the argument put forward on grounds of age of John Joyce Russell resignation to.