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NAME: HAAS, Francis Joseph

BORN: March 18, 1889; Racine, Wisconsin
           Peter Francis Haas, Mary Lucy O'Day

EDUCATION: St. Francis Sem., Milwaukee, WI (1904)
                     Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD
                     Catholic U., Washington, DC (Ph.D. 1922)



ORDINATION:

June 11, 1913; St. Joseph's Church, Racine, WI;

  Bp. Joseph M. Koudelka
   
CONSECRATION: Nov. 18, 1943; St. Andrew's Cathedral, GR, MI
 

Abp. Amleto G. Cicognani

  Abp. Edward A. Mooney, Abp. Moses E. Kiley
 
DIED: August 29, 1953; Grand Rapids, MI
 
BURIAL: Resurrection Cem., Wyoming, MI
   
 
1913
Asst., Holy Rosary, Milkwaukee, WI
1915

Prof., St. Francis Sem., Milwaukee, WI

1919
Grad. study, Catholic U., Washington, DC
1922
Prof. of economics, St. Francis Sem., Milwaukee, WI
1922
Prof. of economics, Marquette U., Milwaukee, WI
1931
Director, National Catholic School of Social Service, Washington, DC
1933
National Labor Relations Board
1935
Rector, St. Francis Sem., Milwaukee, WI
1936

LL.D., U. of Wisconsin

July 6, 1937
Domestic Prelate
1937
Dean of School of Social Science
Catholic University, Washington, DC
Oct. 2, 1943
Elected to the see of Grand Rapids, MI
Nov. 18, 1943 Bishop of Grand Rapids, MI
1943 Chair, President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice

 

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