Joseph Rademacher (bishop)

Joseph Rademacher ( born December 3, 1840 in Westphalia, Missouri, USA, † June 12, 1900 in Chicago) was Bishop of Fort Wayne.

Life

Joseph Rademacher studied philosophy at St. Vincent 's College in Latrobe and Catholic Theology at St. Michael 's Seminary in Pittsburgh. He received on August 2, 1863 by the Bishop of Fort Wayne, John Henry Luers, the sacrament of Holy Orders.

Rademacher was a pastor in Attica, Indiana, and from 1870 in Columbia City. In 1872 he became Chancellor of the Diocese of Fort Wayne and pastor of St. Mary in Fort Wayne. From 1880 to 1883 was Joseph Rademacher pastor of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Lafayette, Indiana.

On April 3, 1883, he was named Pope Leo XIII. Bishop of Nashville. The Archbishop of Chicago, Patrick Augustine Feehan, donated to him on 24 June of the same year the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Fort Wayne, Joseph Gregory Dwenger CPPS, and the Bishop of Columbus, John Ambrose Watterson. On July 14, 1893, he was named Leo XIII. Bishop of Fort Wayne.