Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fernando Cento, 75, wanted to be an engineer as a boy in Pollenza, but yielded to his mother's pleading and entered a theological seminary, graduated with honors in only 2½ years. Appointed Bishop of Acireale in Sicily in 1922, he attracted attention by pulling his poverty-stricken diocese out of its downhill course. He became nuncio to Venezuela in 1926, to Peru in 1936, to Belgium in 1946, to Portugal in 1953, is famed for his sense of humor and daring use of languages that he has not completely mastered...
...praising the Lord than passing the ammunition, and he tirelessly organized seminars and study groups for the soldiers. Later, Urbani became top national ecclesiastical adviser to the Catholic Action movement, traveled all over Italy organizing parish priests in a grass-roots light against Communism. In 1955 he was made Bishop of Verona, with the personal title of archbishop...
Paul Marie A. Richaud, 71, was born in Versailles, and in 1938 became Bishop of Laval, near Rennes. A zealous promoter of Catholic Action and the French boy scout movement, he was named Bishop of Bordeaux in 1950, appropriately is noted in that wine-producing region for his fine cellar...
...College of Cardinals (TIME, Dec. 1). Born in Hausen, near Würzburg, he was ordained only a few weeks after World War II began, returned to Germany, became vice rector of the training college for priests in Würzburg. In 1943 Pius XII appointed him Bishop of Würzburg and last year Bishop of Berlin, where he won the sympathy of refugees and young people, took a firm stance against Communism...
Died. Ralph Ansel Ward, 76, veteran (50 years) missionary to the Chinese. Methodist Bishop of Hong Kong, president (1925-27) of Foochow's Anglo-Chinese College, onetime resident Bishop at Chengtu (1937-41) and at Shanghai. World War II prisoner of the Japanese; in Hong Kong...