Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1936-37 (1)

ILLNESS OF PAPAL DELEGATE TO PREVENT HIS ATTENDING CEREMONIES MONDAY; BISHOP LE BLOND IS TO PRESIDE AT CONSECRATION As an Altar Boy

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Des Moines Bishop To Be Second · Official HONORS PLANNED Msgr. Hegarty and Manr Local Pastors To Be Present His Excellency, Archbishop Am- leto Giovanni Cicognani, Papal Delegate to the United States, be- ing ill of pneumonia at his resi- dence in Washington, D. C., and unable to participate in the Con- secration Monday at St. Joseph, Missouri, of the Very Rev . Charles Francis Buddy as the first bishop of America's newest diocese, plans have necessarily been changed and the Most Rev. Charles Hubert Bishop-Elect

Jlost R ev. Gerald T. Bergan. Bishop of Des Moines

Becomes Cathedral Church

The priest who is to become San Diego's first bishop Mon- day, served at the Altar even as a child, as may be seen from this old photograph of 12-year-old Charles Francis Aloysius Buddy, taken l\fay 23, 1899. --------------------

The Very Rev. Charles Fran- cis Buddy, S.T.L., Ph.D., pastor of st. Joseph's Cathedral, St. Joseph, 1\-10., until Nov. 2, when he was appointed by His Holi- ness, Pope Pius XI, as the first Bishop of the Diocese of San Di- ego, created on the same day. Le Blond, D . D., bishop of St . Jo- seph, and superior of th e new pre- late since his ordination in 1914, will act as Consecrator at the

-------~ I :\Ir. and :\frs. ·wm Bann~;-a~d- }I;s~ James Shortle of Kansas City will at- tend the consecration of the Very Rev. C'. F. Buddy on ::\,Ionday . * * * *

Fellowing his consecration as the first Bishop of the Diocese C'f San Diego on Monday, the l\Iost Rev. Charles Francis Budth. D.D.. will come to San Diego and St. Joseph's parish ~\iil become the Cathedral parish. St. Joseph's, above, was built by the first pastor of the parish, Father Anton Ubach in 1894, and today re- mains the largest church in the diocese.