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NAME: RICHTER, Henry Joseph
Heinrich Joseph

BORN: April 9, 1838; Neuenkirchen, Oldenburg
           (Münster),
Germany
           Johann Heinrich Theodor Richter,

           Anna Maria Elisabetha Albers / Speckbauch

EDUCATION: St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati, OH
                    St. Joseph’s College, Bardstown, KY

                    North American College, Rome (1860-65)
                    (S.T.D., 1865)




ORDINATION:

June 10, 1865; Rome, Italy;

  Costantino Cardinal Patrizi
   
CONSECRATION: April 22, 1883; St. Andrew's Cathedral, GR, MI
 

Bp. William H. Elder (coadjutor Cincinnati, OH)
Bp. Caspar H. Borgess (Detroit, MI)
Bp. William G. McCloskey (Louisville)

   
DIED: December 26, 1916 (1:45 p.m.); St. Mary's Hospital, GR, MI
   
BURIAL: St. Andrew's Cem., GR, MI
  preservation vault, Lima, OH
Mt. Calvary Cem., GR, MI
Resurrection Cern., Wyoming, MI
   
   
Oct. 25, 1865
Prof. of dogmatic theology & philosophy,

Mt. St. Mary's Sem., Cincinnati, OH
Chaplain, Sisters of Charity, Cedar Grove, OH

March, 1866
Pastor, St. Lawrence, Price HilI, Cincinnati, OH
Chaplain, Sisters of Charity, Cedar Grove, OH
1870
Vice President, Mt. St. Mary's Sern.,Cincinnati, OH
Chaplain, Sisters of Charity, Cedar Grove, OH
Jan. 30, 1883
Appointed Bishop of Grand Rapids
Apr 22, 1883

Consecrated and installed as Bishop of Grand Rapids, MI

1883
Commission of Investigation (Cincinnati, OH)
Diocesan Consultor (Cincinnati, OH)
1884
Attended Third Plenary Council of Baltimore
1889
Attended Fifth Provincial Council of Cincinnati

 

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