Joseph Bernardin

Joseph Louis Cardinal Bernardin ( born April 2, 1928 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, † November 14, 1996 in Chicago) was Archbishop of Cincinnati and Chicago.

Life

Joseph Bernardin studied in Charleston, Baltimore, New York City and Washington trays Catholic theology and philosophy. He earned his doctorate in theology and received on 26 April 1952, the sacrament of Holy Orders. He then worked as a pastor, teacher and vicar general in Columbia.

On March 9, 1966, Pope Paul VI appointed him. Auxiliary Bishop in Atlanta and Titular Bishop of Lugura. The bishop He was ordained on 26 April of the same year by the Archbishop of Atlanta, Paul John Hallinan. Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Charleston, Ernest Leo Unterköfler, and the rector of the Pontifical North American College, Bishop Francis Frederick Reh. He was Apostolic Administrator of the vacant bishopric of Atlanta in 1968. In late 1972, Joseph Bernardin, Archbishop of Cincinnati. From 1974 to 1977 Bernardin was chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Conference. After ten years as Metropolitan in Cincinnati, he was on August 25, 1982 Archbishop of Chicago. In 1983, by Pope John Paul II as a Cardinal priest with the titular church of Gesù Divin Lavoratore in the College of Cardinals to. Joseph Louis Bernardin died on 14 November 1996 in Chicago and was buried in the cemetery of Mount Carmel Cemetery ( Hillside ).

Honors

On 9 September 1996, U.S. President Bill Clinton Bernardin presented the Medal of Freedom ("The Presidential Medal of Freedom" ), the highest civilian award in the United States. In 1985 he was awarded the Pacem in Terris Award.