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NAME: KELLY, Edward Denis

BORN: December 30, 1860; Hartford, Michigan
           (Watervliet: St. Joseph)
           Thomas Kelly &
Mary Hannon

EDUCATION: Assumption College, Sandwich,
                    Ontario, Canada
                    Mt. St. Mary's Sem., Cincinnati, OH
                    St. Charles College, Ellicott City, MD
                    St. Joseph's Sern., Troy, NY




ORDINATION: June 16, 1886; St. Alphonsus Church, Windsor,
  Ontario, Canada; Bp. Caspar H. Borgess
   
CONSECRATION: January 26, 1911; St. Thomas Church, Ann Arbor;
 

James Cardinal Gibbons (Baltimore),
Bp. Henry J. Richter (Grand Rapids),
Bp. Camillus P. Maes (Covington)

   
DIED: March 26, 1926; Bishop's residence
  (1225 Lake Dr., S.E.), Grand Rapids, MI
hemorrhage or embolism due to ulcers
   
BURIAL: Woodlawn Cem., GR;
 

reinterred at Resurrection Cem., Wyoming, MI

   
   
1891-1919 Diocesan Examiner
1891-1919 Kalamazoo Deanery School Board
June 15, 1886 Deacon, Sandwich, Ontario, Canada
July, 1886 Asst., St. Philip, Battle Creek, MI
October,1887 Prof., St. Francis Sem., Monroe, MI
1889 Vice Rector, St. Francis Sem., Monroe, MI
August, 1889 Pastor, St. John, Monroe, MI
October, 1889 Pastor, St. Joseph, Dexter, MI
June, 1891 Pastor, St. Thomas, Ann Arbor, MI
December 9, 1910 Titular Bishop of Cestra, Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, MI
January-Nov., 1918 Administrator sede vacante of Detroit
January 16, 1919 Appointed Bishop of Grand Rapids, MI
 April 10, 1919 Installed as Bishop of Grand Rapids (Moeller)
May 19, 1919

Moved to Grand Rapids, MI

 

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