Word: archbishop
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Richard Cardinal Gushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston............LL.D...
President Pusey conferred Doctor of Laws degrees on His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston; C. Douglas Dillon '31, U.S. Under-secretary of State; State Department "trouble shooter" Robert D. Murphy; Ada Louise Comstock Notestein, President of Radcliffe College from 1923-43; M.I.T President-Elect Julius A. Stratton; and Sidney J. Weinberg, a New York investment banker...
Died. Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, one of France's eight cardinals, member of the French Academy, author (The Life and Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), worker in the French Resistance movement in World War II; of influenza; in Le Mans, France, where he served as archbishop...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue one day 20 years ago, traffic came to a halt as thousands of New Yorkers, 2,000 priests and scores of bishops crowded into St. Patrick's Cathedral for the installation of the city's sixth Roman Catholic archbishop. Said the new prelate, whom they had come to honor: "I have read that this see is the richest see . . . The city of New York has length and breadth and height and depth of astonishing dimensions . . . [But] my viewpoint as a Catholic bishop is the apprehension of St. Paul, who wrote to the Corinthians...
This week, as Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman celebrated his 70th birthday and his 20th anniversary as New York's archbishop, he could look the length and breadth of his see for some remarkable achievements. During the last two decades, the Catholic population of the New York archdiocese (including Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, and seven suburban counties) grew 50% to 1,558,328; the number of auxiliary bishops had risen from one to nine; the number of elementary and high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through...