Samuel Stritch

Samuel Cardinal Stritch Alphonse ( born August 17, 1887 in Nashville, USA, † May 26, 1958 in Rome) was archbishop of Chicago and later became a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Samuel Stritch studied in Cincinnati and Rome, the subjects Catholic theology and philosophy. He received on 21 May 1909 in Rome the sacrament of ordination by Cardinal Pietro Respighi, and then worked as a parish pastor in the Diocese of Nashville. In the years 1916 and 1917 he was the personal secretary to the bishop of Nashville, 1917-1921 Diocesan Chancellor.

1921 awarded him Pope Benedict XV. the title of Pontifical domestic prelates and appointed him on 10 August of the same year as Bishop of Toledo in Ohio. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Cincinnati, Henry Moeller, on 30 November 1921. Were co-consecrators the Archbishop of Little Rock, John Baptist Morris, and the Bishop of Brooklyn, Thomas Edmund Molloy.

Pope Pius XI. appointed Samuel Stritch Alphonse on 26 August 1930, Archbishop of Milwaukee, Pope Pius XII. put him on 27 December 1939, the leadership of the Archdiocese of Chicago and took him on 18 February 1946 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of S. Agnese fuori le mura in the College of Cardinals to. On March 1, 1958, he was named by Pope Pius XII. for Pro- Prefect of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide. Samuel Stritch Alphonse died on 26 May 1958 following an operation and was buried in the Archdiocese of Chicago Bischofsmausoleum in the cemetery Mount Carmel Cemetery ( Hillside ).

Honors

• 1956: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic