William Donald Borders

William Donald Borders ( born October 9, 1913 in Washington, Indiana, † April 19, 2010 in Lutherville Timonium, Maryland ) was Archbishop of Baltimore.

Life

William Donald Borders came in 1932, St. Meinrad Seminary and studied theology at Notre Dame Seminar, New Orleans. He received on 18 May 1940 the ordination to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of New Orleans by Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel in the St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. After a short pastoral activity in Baton Rouge, he was employed from 1943 to 1946 as a member of the United States Corps of Chaplains, most recently the rank of major, military chaplain of the 91st Division of the U.S. Army and in North Africa and Italy. For his service he was awarded the Bronze Star V.

After the war he was a pastor in Westwego, Louisiana, and finished in 1947 a master's degree in Education at the University of Notre Dame. He was chaplain and university chaplain at the Newman Center at Louisiana State University. After pastoral work, he was in 1964 rector of St. Joseph 's Cathedral in Baton Rouge and worked in various offices of the diocese. In 1963 he was appointed Monsignor.

1968 Pope Paul VI appointed him. the first bishop of Orlando in Florida. He received his episcopal consecration of the Apostolic Delegate in the United States and later Cardinal Luigi Raimondi, on June 14, 1968; Co-consecrators were Robert Emmet Tracy, Bishop of Baton Rouge, and Louis Abel Caillouet, Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans. His motto was " Auscultabo ut serviam " ( I will listen, that I may serve ).

In 1974, he became the 13th Archbishop of Baltimore, the oldest U.S. diocese appointed. He also served as Chairman of the Commission for the education of the United States Catholic Conference ( USCC ), and in various offices of the U.S. Conference of Bishops ( USCCB ). His resignation was accepted in 1989 by Pope John Paul II.

Work

Borders advocated for the strengthening of Catholic schools and the reorganization of the diocesan administration. He campaigned for the abolition of racial segregation and promoted the lay movement in the Church.

The " Baltimore Magazine" called on account of the foundations of soup kitchens the "King of soup kitchens " ( King of Soup Kitchens ). During his tenure as Archbishop of Baltimore its social budget grew from $ 2.5 million per year to up to 33 million and the number of employees from 200 to more than 1,000.

For his book Spiritual Living in Secular Society, he received about regional recognition.