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The Bishops of the Diocese of
Rochester
The summer after Bishop O’Hern’s death, Archbishop Edward A. Mooney, apostolic delegate to Japan, was visiting family and friends during a vacation to Ohio. He was planning to return to his post in Tokyo in late August 1933. But his plans changed on Aug. 28 of that year, when he learned he had been named the fourth bishop of Rochester.
Archbishop Mooney (1933-37), a Maryland native who had been raised in Ohio, was tasked with shepherding the diocese through the end of the Great Depression. He began several charitable societies during his tenure, and in 1935 he approved the
Archbishop Edward Mooney walks in procession during his Sept. 12, 1933, installation as Rochester’s fourth bishop
formation of the Peter Claver Society to work in the African-American community. Through the society’s efforts, the rst African-American students were admitted to Rochester’s Aquinas Institute, which he had asked the Basilian Fathers to operate.
Pope Pius XI appointed him archbishop of Detroit on May 25, 1937. Before departing for Detroit that summer, Archbishop Mooney approved the sale to Eastman Kodak Co. of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and rectory, the diocesan chancery and St. Andrew’s Seminary. He also named Sacred Heart Church as the diocesan pro-cathedral (temporary cathedral).
Archbishop Mooney’s coat of arms.
Edward Mooney, fourth Bishop of Rochester (1933-1937).
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