Joseph Mark McShea was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
16 Facts About Joseph McShea
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Joseph McShea served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Allentown in Pennsylvania from 1961 to 1983.
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Joseph McShea received his early education at the parochial school of Transfiguration of Our Lord Parish in Philadelphia.
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Joseph McShea graduated from West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys in 1923, and then began his studies for the priesthood at St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia.
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Joseph McShea then returned to the United States, where he served as secretary of the Apostolic Delegation in Washington, DC from 1938 to 1952.
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Joseph McShea was named a papal chamberlain in August 1938, and raised to the rank of domestic prelate in April 1948.
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On February 8,1952, Joseph McShea was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and titular bishop of Mina by Pope Pius XII.
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Joseph McShea selected as his episcopal motto: Sub Umbra Petri.
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Joseph McShea was appointed the first bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Allentown by Pope John XXIII on February 11,1961.
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Joseph McShea's installation took place at the Cathedral of Saint Catharine of Siena in Allentown on April 11,1961.
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Between 1962 and 1965, Joseph McShea attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council in Rome.
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Joseph McShea founded "Operation Rice Bowl" which began in the form of a small cardboard box in the parishes of the diocese to receive alms directed to relieving a famine in Africa.
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Joseph McShea helmed the founding of Holy Family Manor, a nursing and rehabilitation center at the former Eugene Grace mansion in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Joseph McShea established Holy Family Villa, a retirement home for priests.
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Joseph McShea convened the first diocesan synod in May 1968.
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In 1969, Joseph McShea sued the board of directors of Sacred Heart Hospital to prevent a corporate merger with Allentown Hospital during the formation of the Allentown-Sacred Heart Hospital Center, in an effort to maintain the Catholic identity of Sacred Heart.