Table of Contents

Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Restrictions
Related Material
Copyright
Location

Descriptive Summary

Collection Name: Bishop Edward McCarthy Collection
Dates: 1969-1977
Abstract: Correspondence, newspaper articles, magazines, book, and 4 scrap books

Biographical Note

Bishop McCarthy was born April 10, 1918 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Bishop was ordained to the priesthood on May 29, 1943. He was ordained as Auxiliary Bishop to the Archbishop of Cincinnati on June 15, 1965. In 1969, Bishop Edward McCarthy was appointed the first and founding Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, established at that time from territories formerly in the Diocese of Tucson and the Diocese of Gallup, and was installed at SS. Simon and Jude Cathedral in Phoenix on December 2, 1969. Then on July 7, 1976, Archbishop Jean Jadot, Apostolic delegate to the United States, announced the elevation of the Most Reverend Edward A. McCarthy to the rank of Archbishop and his appointment as Archbishop of Miami, Florida. Bishop McCarthy is now retired in Miami.

 

Restrictions

None

Related Material

See Alive Magazine 1969 to 1983 and Catholic Sun Newspaper 1985 to present
See department index for same time period

Copyright

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors), to use, quote, publish or to reproduce in any format material within these archives.

Location

Row : 1
Cabinet : 1
Draw : 2
Files : 1-16