Joseph Rummel
Founder of Archbishop Shaw High School
Joseph Francis Rummel was a German-born American Catholic prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Omaha in Nebraska from 1928 to 1935 and as archbishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans from 1935 to 1964. Wikipedia
Born: October 14, 1876, Rastatt, Germany
Died: November 8, 1964 (age 88 years), New Orleans, LA
Organization founded: Archbishop Shaw High School
Successor: John Patrick Cody
Joseph Francis Rummel (October 14, 1876 – November 8, 1964) was a German-born American Catholic prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of ...
Archbishop Rummel served as the local leader of the Catholic Church for twenty-nine years. During his tenure in New Orleans, the Church enjoyed a period of ...
8 (AP) — The Most Rev. Joseph Francis Rummel, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Orleans, who initiated parochial school integration in the South, died here today ...
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States. For many years the Archbishop had been outspoken in his advocacy of racial equality. In 1956 he had publicly denounced racial segregation as.
His Excellency the Most Reverend Joseph Francis Rummel, S.T.D, was the ninth Archbishop of New Orleans. Throughout his administration the church made ...
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RUMMEL, JOSEPH FRANCIS Ninth archbishop of New Orleans, La.; b. Steinmauern, Baden, Germany, Oct. 14, 1876; d. New Orleans, Nov. 8, 1964.
Archbishop Joseph Rummel. A photographic portrait of Archbishop Joseph Rummel who was a key figure in the desegregation of the Archdiocese and Catholic ...
May 30, 2021 ˇ From the Archives By Mary Woodward JACKSON – This week I am highlighting a neighbor to the south of us – Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, ...