Mark Francis Schmitt

Mark Francis Schmitt ( born February 14, 1923 in Algoma, † December 14, 2011 in De Pere, Wisconsin) was an American clergyman and Roman Catholic Bishop of Marquette.

Life

Mark Francis Schmitt studied from 1937 to 1943 at the Salvatorian Seminary in St. Nazianz and from 1943 to 1948 at St. Benedict College and at St. John's University in Collegeville. He received on 22 May 1948, the ordination to the priesthood for the Diocese of Green Bay. He initially worked at the St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Green Bay. Subsequently, he was an assistant pastor at the parish of St. Rose of Lima in Clintonville and St. Peter and Paul in Weyauwega. 1969/70 he was pastor at St. Bernard.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him auxiliary bishop on April 30, 1970 in Green Bay, and Titular Bishop of Ceanannus Mór. The Bishop of Green Bay Aloysius John Wycislo ordained him on June 24 of the same year the bishop; Co-consecrators were John Benjamin Grellinger, Emeritus Auxiliary Bishop of Green Bay, and Frederick William Freking, Bishop of La Crosse. He was responsible for the apostolate Manitowoc, Diocesan Director of Catholic hospitals, Chairman of the Commission for Art and Architecture and most recently director of pastoral planning.

On March 21, 1978 Schmitt was Paul VI. appointed Bishop of Marquette and introduced into the office on 8 May of the same year. He engaged especially for the lay apostolate.

On October 6, 1992, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.