Evening star., 1940-01-04
Archbishop Stritch
Gets Assignment
To Chicago Area
Bishop KiIey, Head Of
Diocese at Trenton, Goes
To Milwaukee

The Most Rev. Samuel A. Stritch,
Archbishop of Milwaukee, whose fel-
low members of the Catholic HE
archy in session here last November |
elected him chairman of the admin
istrative board, National Catholic |
Welfare Conference, has been ap-
pointed to succeed the late Cardinal
Mundelein as Archbishop Of Chi
cago, where he will preside over one
of the largest and wealthiest Cath
olic dioceses in the world. Cardinal
Mundelein died last October 2.
At the same time it was announced
by the apostolic delegation here last
midnight, following word received
from Rome, that the Most Rev
Moses E. Kiley, Bishop of Trenton,
will succeed Archbishop Stritch at
Milwaukee.
In Milwaukee, Archbishop Stritch
said The surprising news of my
transfer brings to me the sad news
that soon I must leave Milwaukee
and Wisconsin. Here for more than
nine years have been happy in my
work, generously assisted by most
jealous clergy and an outstanding
laity," the Associated Press reported.
Bishop Kiley, a native of Nova
Scotia, was conSecrated bisnop at
Rome in 1884 and was installed as
head of the diocese at Trenton
later the same year.
Native of Nashville,
Archbishop Stritch was born at
Nashville, Tenn, on August II, 1887,
the son of Garret Stritch, native
of Ireland, and Catherine Mally
Stritch, born in the United States
Of Irish parents.
He was ordained in Rome May
81, 1910, after studying philosophy
and theology at the American Col
lege there. He was made Bishop OF
Toledo in 1921, becoming one Of the
youngest members of the Catholic
Church episcopacy in the United
States.
Prior to his appointment as BiSh-
op of Toledo he had served as pas
tor of St. Mary's Church at Men,
phis, Tenn. In 1916 he was appoint
ed secretary and in 1917 chancellor
of the Nashville diocese. Suose-
quently he was made domestic prel-
ate with the title Of monsignor.
On November 30, 1921, Msgr.
Stritch became Bishop of Toledo,
consecrated in ceremonies there by
Archbishop Henry Moeller of Gin
cinnati.
His major accomplishments at
Toledo included construction OF a
s1,OOO,OO0 Catholic high school, erec-
ton of a new cathedral and addi-
ton of seven new parishes to his
diocese.
Large Increase in Parishes.
His administration in Milwaukee
was marked by substantial increase
In parishes of the archdiocese, which
is one of the largest in the United
States; establishment of the Cath
olic Youth Organization, a merger
of the Catholic Herald and Catholic
Citizen as a modernized Catholic
Herald Citizen and an intensiflca-
tion of organized charities work, an
endeavor particularly dear to the
archbishop.
Bishop Kiley studied at St.
Laurent College, Montreal; ST.
Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, and in
Rome, where he received the de-
grees of doctor of philosophy and
doctor of sacred theology. He was
ordained in Rome in 1911.
In Chicago. where he went after
his return to this country, he
founded the Mission of the Holy
Cross for Homeless Men and later
was named archdiocesan director OF
Catholic charities. In recognition
of his work for the poor, Pope Plus
XI conferred the title of monsignor
on him in 1924.
Bishop Kiley later became spir-
itual director of the North American
College in Rome, then was ap-
pointed American representative OF
the Pontifical Board of the Society
for the Propagation of the Faith.
He returned to the United States in
the summer of 1926 as secretary to
Cardinal Bonzano, who came here
as papal legate to the International
Eucharistic Congress in Chicago.