1. John Joseph Cardinal Carberry was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of St Louis from 1968 to 1979.
36 Facts About John Carberry
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John Carberry served as Bishop of Lafayett-in-Indiana from 1957 to 1965 and Bishop of Columbus from 1965 to 1968.
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John Joseph Carberry was born in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of ten children of James Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Carberry.
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John Carberry's father worked as a clerk at Kings County Court.
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John Carberry received his early education at the parochial school of St Boniface Parish in Brooklyn.
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John Carberry excelled in both baseball and the violin at the college.
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From 1924 to 1930, John Carberry studied for the priesthood in Rome, where he resided at the Pontifical North American College.
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John Carberry earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree and a Doctor of Theology degree from the Pontifical Urbaniana University.
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On June 28,1929, John Carberry was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Brooklyn by Cardinal Francesco Selvaggiani in Rome.
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John Carberry continued his studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he received a Doctor of Canon Law degree in 1934.
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John Carberry then served as a curate at St Patrick's Parish in Huntington, New York, for one year.
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From 1935 to 1940, Carberry was on loan to the Diocese of Trenton in New Jersey, serving as secretary to Bishop Moses E Kiley and assistant chancellor of the diocese.
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John Carberry taught at Trenton Cathedral High School in Trenton, New Jersey, from 1939 to 1940.
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John Carberry was an officialis of the Diocese of Brooklyn from 1945 to 1956, serving as chief judge of the diocesan court.
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From 1955 to 1956, John Carberry served as president of the Canon Law Society of America.
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On May 3,1956, John Carberry was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana and titular bishop of Elis by Pope Pius XII.
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John Carberry received his episcopal consecration on July 25,1956, from Bishop Raymond Kearney, with Bishops George W Ahr and John Benjamin Grellinger serving as co-consecrators, at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church In Brooklyn Carberry selected as his episcopal motto: Maria, Regina Mater.
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John Carberry's installation took place at the Cathedral of St Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Lafayette, Indiana, on August 22,1956.
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John Carberry convened the first diocesan synod and established the Diocesan Council of Men and the Society for Priestly Vocations during his tenure.
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John Carberry attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965.
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John Carberry was appointed the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Columbus by Pope Paul VI on January 16,1965.
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John Carberry was installed at St Joseph's Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio, on March 25,1965.
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John Carberry established the Clergy Advisory Council, and oversaw the renovation of St Joseph's Cathedral after issuing regulations for liturgical changes.
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John Carberry bought a new building to centralize the offices of the diocesan chancery.
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John Carberry helped found the Inter-Church Board for Metropolitan Affairs, the first organization in the United States uniting Protestants and Catholics for ecumenism and social action.
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John Carberry passed these concerns to Archbishop Thomas Boland, who directed the parish to make the necessary changes.
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On February 14,1968, John Carberry was appointed the fifth archbishop of the Archdiocese of St Louis.
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John Carberry's installation took place at the Cathedral of St Louis in St Louis, Missouri, on March 25,1968.
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John Carberry was considered more theologically conservative than his predecessor, Cardinal Joseph Ritter.
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In 1969, John Carberry removed about 60 of his seminarians from a class at the Saint Louis University Divinity School, in objection to their being taught Pauls' epistles by the Presbyterian scholar Keith Nickle.
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John Carberry moved his own residence from the episcopal residence in St Louis to suburban Creve Coeur, Missouri.
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In 1972, John Carberry established the Urban Services Apostolate for inner-city parishes in the archdiocese.
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John Carberry was elected vice-president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1974, and was a delegate to the World Synod of Bishops in 1972,1974 and 1976.
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John Carberry initially opposed the reception of communion by hand, believing it was irreverent and risked the possibility of recipients stealing hosts to use at black masses.
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John Carberry died soon after his only living relative, sister, Loretto Carberry.
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John Carberry is buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of St Louis.