1. Joseph Schrembs was a German-born prelate of the Catholic Church.
24 Facts About Joseph Schrembs
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Joseph Schrembs served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Grand Rapids in Michigan for five months in 1911, as bishop of the Diocese of Toledo in Ohio from 1911 to 1921, and as bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland in Ohio from 1921 to 1945.
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Joseph Schrembs was born in Wutzlhofen in the Kingdom of Bavaria, on March 12,1866.
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Joseph Schrembs was one of sixteen children born to George and Mary Schrembs.
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In 1877, Schrembs immigrated to the United States under the patronage of Bishop Rupert Seidenbusch.
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Joseph Schrembs enrolled at St Vincent's College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where his older brother Rudesind had become a Benedictine monk.
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Joseph Schrembs was then accepted as a seminarian by Bishop Henry Richter of the Diocese of Grand Rapids in Michigan.
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Joseph Schrembs was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Grand Rapids by Bishop Richter on June 29,1889.
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Joseph Schrembs preached at St Mary in both English and French.
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In 1900, Joseph Schrembs was appointed pastor of St Mary's, a German language parish in Grand Rapids.
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In 1905, Joseph Schrembs built a new convent for the sisters.
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In January 1906, he was raised to the rank of domestic prelate by Pope Pius X After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Schrembs took up collections to aid the survivors.
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On January 8,1911, Schrembs was appointed as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Grand Rapids and titular bishop of Sophene by Pius X He received his episcopal consecration on February 22,1911, from Bishop Richter, with Bishops Camillus Maes and John Foley serving as co-consecrators.
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Joseph Schrembs requested the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota send nuns to the Toledo area to work with the children of the Polish immigrants.
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In 1912, Joseph Schrembs led the fundrasing to build a hospital in Tiffin, Ohio.
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On June 16,1921, Joseph Schrembs was appointed the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland by Pope Pius XI.
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On June 12,1924, Joseph Schrembs offered the invocation on the third day of the 1924 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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Joseph Schrembs promoted the cause for canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Native American woman from what is today Upstate New York who converted to Catholicism.
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Joseph Schrembs was given the personal title of archbishop on March 25,1939.
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In 1942, as Joseph Schrembs' diabetes worsened, Pope Pius XII named Bishop Edward Hoban as Joseph Schrembs' coadjutor bishop to help him with his duties.
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Joseph Schrembs died on November 2,1945, in Cleveland at age 79.
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In 1923, speaking to a meeting of the National Council of Catholic Women in Washington, DC, Joseph Schrembs criticized the US Government for spending millions of dollars trying to enforce Prohibition, the ban on alcoholic beverages in the United States.
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Joseph Schrembs said that the law, based on the Eighteenth amendment to the US Constitution, was unenforceable and that high officials were breaking the law themselves by consuming alcohol.
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Joseph Schrembs specifically mentioned preventing the births of babies with physical and mental disabilities.