Alcala 1969

BISHOP JOHN R QUINN

The Most Rev. John R. Quinn, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego, is the first native California to be a bishop of the Dio­ cese and only the second person to hold this position. At the time of his consecration, he was the youngest Catholic bishop in the nation. Bishop Quinn was appointed by Pope Paul VI on October 21, 1967. He was consecrated in St. Joseph's Cathedral, San Diego, December 12, 1967, by the Most Rev. Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States. Bishop Quinn took, for his motto, the opening words of the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium Christus, meaning Light of the Nations. Bishop Furey and the Most Rev. Frederick Freking, Bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse, were the co-consecrators. At the time of his appointment as Auxiliary Bishop, Bishop Quinn was named Vicar General by Bishop Furey, in accordance with the directives for the Second Vatican Council in its decree of the Pastoral Office of Bishops. Bishop Quinn was appointed Provost of the University of San Diego, Alcala Park, this year by Bishop Furey. His previous posts include the presidency of St. Francis College Seminary, to which he was appointed in 1962, and Rector of Immaculate Heart Sem­ inary, which he assumed in 1964. Prior to taking the post of col­ lege president, Bishop Quinn had been professor of dogmatic theology at Immaculate Heart. Bishop Quinn was born in Riverside, March 28, 1929, the son of the late Ralph J. Quinn and Elizabeth Carroll Quinn. Mrs. Quinn now makes her home in La Mesa. The Bishop attended St. Francis De Sales elementary school in Riverside and Sacred Heart Preparatory High School in Watertown, Wisconsin. He studied for the Priesthood at St. Francis Seminary and the Immaculate Heart Seminary, El Cajon, completing his philosophical and theological studies at the North American Col­ lege and Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained to the Priesthood in Rome on July 19, 1953. His first assignment in the United States was as assistant pastor at St. George's Parish, in Ontario, California, inJuly, 1954.

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