The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-05-13
ARCHBISHOP KEANE
OF Dubuque Resisned-Failins Health
the Cause.

OF Dubuque Resigned-Failins Health
the Cause.
Word has been received from Wash
ington, D. c., that the Holy See has
accepted the resignation of Archbishop
keane Of Dubuque. The Archbishop
has been in ill-health for some time,
and for the past year he has been
practically incapacitnted from per-
forming the duties of his office. About
August l, 1909, he asked for coadju-
tor, and two different "ternas" Of
names were submitted to Rome, but
no appointment was made. The last
definite information on this matter
came about six months ago. Since that
time vague rumors of the Archbishop's
impending resignation have circulated,
but nothing definite was known until
the recent dispatch from Washington.
The resignation of Archbishop Keane
means that the most important see in
this ecclesiastical province, including
Iowa. Nebraska and wyoming, is now
vacant A meeting of the consultors
and irremovable rectors of the arch
diocese will be called soon to propose
three names for the vacant see
Archbishop Keane has been Metro
politan of Dubuque for little more
than ten years. his appointment to
that see having been made September
q. 1900. He il In his seventy second
year and for thirty-three years he has
borne the burden OF the episcopate
John Joseph Keane was born in
Bally Shannon. County Donegal, Ire
land, September IL, 1899 He came
with his family to the United States
In 1916.
After Il successful course of three
years at st. Charles College. young
keane graduated with first honors, and
entered st. Mary's Seminary in 1852.
Having completed the regular course
OF moral and dogmatic theology and
sacred eloquence he was ordained by
Archbishop Spalding, July 2, 1866 At
ter his ordination he was assigned to
ST. PatricEs church at Washington,
afterwards presided over by the elo-
quent DR. Stafford, as assistant to Rev
Jacob j. Walter, and continued there
uninterruptedly until his nomination
to the See of Richmond. Va, in 1878
He was consecrated August % of that
year.
In 1884 Bishop Keane took part in
the third Plenary Council at Baltimore,
at which time it was decreed that
there should be established great ma
t1onal institution for post collegiate
and highly specialized education to be
called the Catholic University of AM
erica, and Bishop Keane was chosen
one of the directors and was subse-
Quently requested by the American
Hierarchy and by His Holiness, Leo
XIII, to resign his diocese in order to
devote himself entirely to the direction
of the university, and in 1885 he was
appointed it's rector.
On September oS 1895, Bishop
Keane resigned the rectorship Of the
Catholic University upon the request
Of Leo XIII, who in his epistlc to
Bishop Keane, said that the custom
Of the Catholic church was not to al :
low rectors of universities to hold Of
flee in perpetuity.
Bishop Keane went to Rome, where
he was made Titular Archbishop and
Consultor to the Congregation of
Propaganda. Archbishop Keane was
transferred to Dubuque and was in
stalled Archbishop OF Dubuque Sop
TENDER p, 1900, succeeding Archbishop
Hennessey, who died March 4, 1900.
AS Archbishop of Dubuque he has
been known for his active support of
every good cause. Active in everything
relating to the spiritual and temporal
welfare Of his people, the Archbishop
gis probably best known through his
I zeal in the cause of temperance. He
us national figure in this movement.
A being honorary president of the Cath
a5olic Total Abstinence Union of Amer
1 lea.