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Pope Leo XIII erected the Diocese of Winona on November 26, 1889. [3] He appointed Reverend Joseph Cotter from Saint Paul as the first bishop of Winona. [8] When Cotter became bishop, the new diocese included 45 priests, eight churches, 15 parochial schools, and two hospitals. Approximately 38,000 Catholics resided in the diocese. Cotter died ...
Hoeppner was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Winona on June 29, 1975, by Pope Paul VI at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. [2] [1] Hoeppner received a Licentiate of Canon Law from Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario. In addition to assignments within the Catholic school system in Winona, Hoeppner served as diocesan director of ...
The strong-minded Archbishop Ireland was no admirer of Eastern Europeans, or of Poles in particular. But Father Cieminski's talents were soon needed elsewhere. His first parish assignment transferred him to Saint Stanislaus Kostka in the newly established Diocese of Winona, where he served as assistant to the pastor, Father Jakub W.J. Pacholski ...
On November 15, 1889, Pope Leo XIII appointed Cotter the first bishop of the Diocese of Winona. [1] On December 27, 1889, he was consecrated at the Cathedral of Saint Paul . In his sermon, Archbishop John Ireland , drawing upon the meaning of the Dakota word Winona, "eldest daughter", referred to the city as the first-born daughter of the ...
On January 8, 1969, Paul VI appointed Watters as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Winona; he was installed on March 13, 1969. [5] Watters led the diocese in the years after Vatican II. He promulgated the document, "The Church in the Diocese of Winona," which described the local Church and the roles of the clergy, religious, and the laity. [1]
When Heffron became bishop in 1910, the Diocese of Winona contained a Catholic population of over 49,000 with 91 priests, 116 churches, and 29 parochial schools with 4,700 students. [10] By the time of his death in 1927, there was a Catholic population of nearly 69,000 with 130 priests, 125 churches, and 42 parochial schools with over 8,000 ...
Pope Leo XIII erected the Diocese of Winona in 1889, taking southern Minnesota from the Archdiocese of Saint Paul. [13] While he was an empire builder, Ireland was not without controversy; the author of The Church and Modern Society (1897), Ireland opposed the use of foreign languages in American Catholic churches and parochial schools ...
Bishop Leo Bintz of Winona decided that the seminarians attending Saint Mary's needed their own seminary residence. He opened IHM in 1947. The first group of seminarians moved into IHM that fall and started classes at Saint Mary's. Their teachers included Reverend George Speltz, a future bishop of the Diocese of St. Cloud, and Reverend William ...