Cardinal George Mundelein
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Cardinal George Mundelein

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Cardinal George Mundelein (1872 - 1939) As a Roman Catholic archdiocese, Chicago is a powerhouse of ministry, service, education and outreach through churches, universities, schools, hospitals, orphanages catering to all people. To this last, we owe a great deal to Cardinal George Mundelein, priest, bishop, builder, visionary and the First Cardinal of the West.George Mundelein was born in the lower east side of New York to German-Irish parents. Educated in New York, Mundelein felt called to the priesthood and studied in Rome where he was ordained in 1895. Moving quickly up the “Purple Ladder”, the young priest was named Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn in 1909, the youngest bishop in the country.In 1915, Pope Benedict XV named Bishop Mundelein the third Archbishop of Chicago. In 1924 he was named Cardinal, the First Cardinal West of the Alleghenies. Despite the trappings of his office, Cardinal Mundelein was a progressive, pro-union American patriot who was very much connected with the nee

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