The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-02-06
BISHOP IRELAND'S
SUCCESSOR NAMED
MONSIGNOR BOWLING OF DES
MONIES ELEvAED TO POST
OF DECEASED PRELATE.
Is FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF age
NEW ARCHBISHOP A NATIVE OF
NEW YORK STATE-CHURCH
MEN DELIGHTED.

st. Paul, Jan. 31.-Monsignor
Austin Bowling, bishop of Des
Moines for the last seven years, has
been appointed archbishop of st. Paul.
to succeed the late Archbishop Ire
land, according to announcement
from Rome yesterday. He is 81 years
old and was born in New York city.
Bishop Bowling, who is fairly well
known in the archdiocese and who
made several visits to the Twin Cities
the last time to attend Archbishop
Ireland's funeral-will not assume tha
duties Of his new office until he re-
ceives the official appointment from
Pope Benedict, and cannot exercise its
functions until the pallium, symbol Of
his new authority and standing in the
church, also is received. A special
messenger from Rome will bring the
two, and it is expected formal investi-
ture will take place Easter Sunday.
Bishop Bowling received his first
degree at Manhattan college, New
York, in 1887. He then went to st.
Johns seminary at Brighton, Mass,
and after that to the Catholic univer-
sity in Washington. He finished there
in 1892. He was ordained priest in
1891. ~ & go = ss
Bishop Bowling was pastor two
years at Sacred Heart parish, East
Providence, r. l.; instructor at st.
Johns Brighton, for four years, and
editor of the Providence Visitor for
two years before taking up the
pastorate of st. Mary's church in
Warren, r. l., which he held from 1904
through 1905. For the next seven
years pastor of saints Peter and Paul
cathedral in Providence. He was
consecrated bishop of Des Moines
April 25, 1912.
In the appointment, it is pointed
out that Pope Benedict observed a
precedent he established several
years ago when he appointed Bishop
Mundelein to the diocese of Chicapo,
transferring him from Brooklyn. The
successor to Archbishop Ireland also
comes from outside, not only the
archdiocese, but the province.
Announcement from Rome is that
Bishop Bowling has been appointed
metropolitan of the st. Paul diocese.
His formal assumption of title Of
archbishop is to date from recent of
the parchment from Rome containing
the papal official statement. In
church usage, metropolitan" is an
archbishop with suffraeans.
The nahum. mark If new dignity
and authority in the Roman Catholic
church, is yokelike band of white
wool with black silk pendants on
breast and back and adorned with
crosses. It is sent by the Pope to
archbjshops and metropolitans as tok-
en- of their sharing in the supremacy
of his jurisdiction :. --,
A dicpatrh f~cr, Dns Moines says
that Bishop Bowling said the annoii-.%.-
ment came as a surprise to him. II
had no expectations. no special inter
est in the appointr" ent," Re is unotod
as havino said. "T would rather rot
tax abont it. However. am p'ea~ed.
TIL" cablegram from Rome contain-
ed announcement, also of four other
appointments. as follows:
The Rev. William F. Gibbons Of
Buffalo. to he bishop of Albany,
s,,ccN"ding the late Monsignor Thos.
F. Crsak.
The Rev. William Turner. professor
at tho Cothnlic university in W""hing-
to-. D c.. tn be bishop of Buffalo.
The R~v. Edward D;"rvs;ne K Nv TO
be trancfarred from the tit''lar bish-
nn~ie IF GcS+rn RI residential one at
Grand PaDids. Mich.
The Rev. William Hickey, titr'ar
bishop ut Cradanoil tn be co-adjutor
bishop of Providence, r. I.