Word: vibiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gentlest of speakers, Archbishop Cantwell still has the brogue of Southern Ireland, where he was born in 1874 and ordained in 1899. His present Cathedral is musty St. Vibiana's in the grubbiest part of Los Angeles. Before his elevation last week he had planned a magnificent new Cathedral in the swanky Wilshire section, but he changed his mind, decided to use the new Cathedral money for a seminary. His private quarters are on fashionable Fremont Place, where his sister keeps his house and a dog keeps him company...
...last April, appointed Dr. Gorman to be Bishop. Born in Pasadena, Calif, in 1892, Dr. Gorman had taken the degree Doctor of Historical Sciences at the University of Louvain, Belgium, had been assigned to several Southern California parishes, had edited since 1926 the diocesan paper Tidings. Consecrated in St. Vibiana Cathedral in Los Angeles (he will be installed in Reno this month), he was the first local priest to be elevated to the episcopacy. To see the ceremony came thousands; assisting in it were Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San Francisco and the Bishops of Los Angeles and San Diego...