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NAME: BABCOCK, Allen James

BORN: June 17, 1898; Bad Axe, Michigan
Willard Babcock, Susan Ryan

EDUCATION: U. of Detroit H.S., Detroit
Assumption College, Windsor (1917-19)
North American College, Rome (01/18/1920-1925)
Propaganda Fide U., Rome (S.T.B., 1922; S.T.L., 1924)




ORDINATION: March 7, 1925; St. John Lateran Basilica, Rome;
  Basilio Cardinal Pompilj
   
CONSECRATION: March 25, 1947;Blessed Sacrament Cathedral, Detroit, MI
  Edward Cardinal Mooney,
  Bp. William F. Murphy, Bp. Stephen S. Woznicki
   
DIED: June 27, 1969; St. Mary's Hospital, GR, MI, lymph cancer
   
BURIAL: Resurrection Cem., Wyoming, MI
   
   
April, 1925
Asst., Holy Name, Detroit, MI
October, 1928
Asst., St. Thomas, Ann Arbor, MI
Chaplain, St. Mary's Student Chapel, Ann Arbor, MI
December, 1936
Vice Rector, North American College, Rome
November 3, 1938
Papal Chamberlain (also March 9, 1939)
September, 1940
Pastor, St. Mary's University Parish, Ann Arbor
June, 1942
Rector, Blessed Sacrament, Detroit, MI
March 25, 1947
Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, MI
February 15, 1947
Appointed Titular Bishop of Irenopolis
August, 1947
Vicar for Religious
Domestic Prelate
August, 1949
Archdiocesan Consultor
March 23, 1954
Appointed Bishop of Grand Rapids, MI
May 20, 1954
Installed as Bishop of Grand Rapids, MI
   

        

     

 

        

                     

       

               

                  

 

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