Louis Joseph Reicher

Louis Joseph Reicher ( born June 14, 1890 in Piqua, Ohio, USA; † 23 February 1984) was Bishop of Austin.

Life

Louis Joseph Reicher received on 6 December 1918, the sacrament of Holy Orders.

On 29 November 1947, he was named by Pope Pius XII. Bishop of Austin. The Bishop of Galveston, Christopher Edward Byrne, donated to him on 14 April 1948, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Lansing, Joseph Henry Albers, and the Coadjutor Bishop of Corpus Christi, Mariano Simon Garriga.

Rich attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council as part of a Council Father.

On November 15, 1971, Pope Paul VI. that of Louis Joseph Reicher put forward reasons of age resignation to.