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Excellency
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Excellency is an honorific style given to certain members of an organisation or state. Generally people addressed as Excellency are heads of state, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, certain ecclesiastics, royalty, and others holding equivalent rank and the FIFA President. It is sometimes misinterpreted as a title of office in itself, in reference to such an official, it takes the form His or Her Excellency, in direct address, Your Excellency, or, less formally, simply Excellency. The abbreviation HE is often used instead of His/Her Excellency, alternatively it may stand for His/Her Eminence, in most republican nations, the head of state is formally addressed as His Excellency. If a republic has a head of government, that official is often addressed as Excellency as well. If the nation is a monarchy, however, the customs may vary, in the case of Australia, all ambassadors, high commissioners, governors and the governor-general and their spouses are entitled to the use of Excellency. Governors of colonies in the British Empire were entitled to be addressed as Excellency, in various international organizations, notably the UN and its agencies, Excellency is used as a generic form of address for all republican heads of state and heads of government. Judges of the International Court of Justice are also called Your Excellency, in some monarchies the husbands, wives, or children, of a royal prince or princess, who do not possess a princely title themselves, may be entitled to the style. For example, in Spain spouses or children of a born infante or infanta are addressed as Excellency, also, former members of a royal house or family, who did have a royal title but forfeited it, may be awarded the style afterwards. Examples are former husbands or wives of a prince or princess, including Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg. In some emirates, only the Emir, heir apparent and prime minister are called His Highness and their children are styled with the lower treatment of His/Her Excellency. In Spain members of the nobility, holding the dignity of grandee, are addressed as The Most Excellent Lord/Lady. Some of the high ranking counts, Excellency can also attach to a prestigious quality, notably in an order of knighthood. By a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Ceremonial of 31 December 1930 the Holy See granted bishops of the Roman Catholic Church the title of Most Reverend Excellency. In the years following the First World War, the title of Excellency. The adjective Most Reverend was intended to distinguish the title from that of Excellency given to civil officials. The instruction Ut sive sollicite of the Holy Sees Secretariat of State, dated 28 March 1969, cardinals, even those who were bishops, continued to use the title of Eminence. In some English-speaking countries, the honorific of Excellency does not apply to other than the nuncio
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Belleville
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Belleville is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern Illinois region of the United States. It comprises the counties of the state of Illinois and is administered from the City of Belleville. The See city for the diocese is Belleville and it is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Chicago. The cathedral parish for the diocese is the Cathedral of Saint Peter and its current bishop is Edward Braxton. The Diocese of Belleville was created on January 7,1887 by Pope Leo XIII and its territory was taken from the Diocese of Alton
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago was established as a diocese in 1843 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1880. It serves the more than 2.3 million Catholics in Cook and Lake counties in Northeastern Illinois, the archdiocese is divided into six vicariates and 31 deaneries. His Eminence Blase Joseph Cupich is the Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, and is assisted by six episcopal vicars, the cathedral parish for the archdiocese, Holy Name Cathedral, is in the Near North Side area of the see city for the diocese, Chicago. The Archdiocese of Chicago is the see of the Province of Chicago. Its suffragan dioceses are the other Catholic dioceses in Illinois, Belleville, Joliet, Peoria, Rockford, a French Jesuit missionary, the Rev. Jacques Marquette, SJ first explored the area that is now Chicago in the mid-17th century. On December 4,1674, Father Marquette arrived at the mouth of the Chicago River where he built a cabin to recuperate from his travels and his cabin became the first European settlement in the area now known as Chicago. Marquette published his survey of the new territories and soon more French missionaries, in 1795, the Potawatomi tribe signed the Treaty of Greenville that ceded to the United States a tract of land at the mouth of the Chicago River. There in 1804, Fort Dearborn was erected and protected newly arrived Catholic pioneers, in 1822, Alexander Beaubien became the first person to be baptized in Chicago. Rosati appointed a diocesan priest, the Rev. John Mary Irenaeus Saint Cyr, Saint Cyr celebrated his first Mass in a log cabin owned by the Beaubien family on Lake Street, near Market Street, in 1833. At the cost of four hundred dollars, Father Saint Cyr purchased a plot of land at what is now the intersection of Lake and State Streets and it was dedicated in October 1833. The following year, the Bishop of Vincennes visited Chicago, where he found over 400 Catholics with only one priest to serve them. The bishop asked permission from Bishop Rosati to send Fathers Fischer, Shaefer, Saint Palais, Dupontavice, Saint Cyr was allowed to retire and was replaced by Chicagos first English-speaking priest, the Rev. James Timothy OMeara. Father OMeara moved the church built by Fr, Saint Cyr to what is now the intersection of Wabash Avenue and Madison Street. OMeara left Chicago, Saint Palais demolished the church and replaced it with a new brick structure, the First Plenary Council of Baltimore concluded that the Roman Catholic population of Chicago was growing exponentially and was in dire need of an episcopal see of its own. With the consent of Pope Gregory XVI, the Diocese of Chicago was canonically erected on November 28,1843, in 1844, William Quarter of Ireland was appointed as the first Bishop of Chicago. Upon his arrival, Quarter summoned a synod of 32 Chicago priests to begin the organization of the diocese and this allowed the bishop to pursue large-scale construction of new churches, colleges and universities to serve the needs of Chicagos Roman Catholic faithful. After four years of service as Bishop of Chicago, Bishop Quarter died on April 10,1848, the church lost nearly a million dollars in church property in the Chicago fire of 1871, leading to administrative instability for decades. The southern section of the state of Illinois split from Chicago diocese in 1853, the Quincy diocese was renamed the Diocese of Alton in 1857, and eventually became Diocese of Springfield
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Wilton Daniel Gregory
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Wilton Daniel Gregory is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who is the Archbishop of Atlanta. Gregory was Bishop of Belleville, Illinois from 1993 to 2004 and he was president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2001 to 2004. Wilton Gregory was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Wilton, one of three children, he has two sisters, Elaine and Claudia. Gregorys parents divorced when he was young, and his grandmother, Etta Mae Duncan. In 1958, he was enrolled at St. Carthage Grammar School and he was baptized and received his First Communion in 1959, and was confirmed by Bishop Raymond P. Hillinger later that year. Gregory graduated from St. Carthage in 1961, and then attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary South and Niles College in Chicago, at the age of 25, he was ordained to the priesthood by John Cardinal Cody on May 9,1973. He continued his studies at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome, Gregory performed pastoral work in Glenview at Our Lady of Perpetual Help and at Mary, Seat of Wisdom Parish in Park Ridge, Illinois. He also taught at Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary and served as a Master of Ceremonies under Cardinals Cody, on October 31,1983, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago and Titular Bishop of Oliva. Gregory received his consecration on the following December 13 from Cardinal Bernardin, with Bishops Alfred Abramowicz and Nevin Hayes. Gregory remained in Chicago until December 29,1993, when he was appointed the seventh Bishop of Belleville, during his presidency, the American bishops issued the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in response to Roman Catholic sex abuse cases. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees at The Catholic University of America, in 2002, in recognition of his handling of the sex abuse scandal with repeated apologies and the defrocking of priests, he was chosen as Times Person of the Week. Before deciding to elevate Archbishop Daniel DiNardo of Houston to the Sacred College of Cardinals in 2007, in late October 2007, Gregory was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and had surgery in November of that same year. He has been one of the bishops in the United States regarding this endeavor. Gregory writes a column for the Roman Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, The Georgia Bulletin titled What I have seen. In it, he regularly shares reflections about his faith, work and it was revealed in 2014 that a large donation was made by the estate of Joseph Mitchell, a nephew of Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell, in favor of the archdiocese Gregory runs. From that amount, he took $2.2 M to build a new residence on property donated to the church that would also serve as a banquet. His action was criticized by local congregants for not adhering to the model of poverty and simplicity encouraged by Pope Francis. He later apologized to members of the Atlanta archdiocese for this action, in April 2014, Gregory announced he was planning to sell the house, though he had moved into it only three months earlier
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John Patrick Cody
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John Patrick Cardinal Cody was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. A native of St. Louis, he served as Bishop of Kansas City–Saint Joseph, Archbishop of New Orleans and he was named a cardinal in 1967. John Cody was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Thomas Joseph and his father was an Irish immigrant who became deputy chief of the St Louis Fire Department. After attending Holy Rosary Parochial School, he entered St. Louis Preparatory Seminary at age 13 and he remained at St. Louis until 1926, when he was sent to continue his studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree and a Doctor of Sacred Theology from the College of the Propagation of the Faith, Cody was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani on December 8,1931. He remained in Rome for the six years as a staff member of the North American College. In 1938, he earned a Doctor of Canon Law from the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare, and was awarded the Benemerenti medal for his services to the Secretariat of State. Upon his return to the United States, Cody served as secretary to Archbishop John J. Glennon until 1940. He was named a Privy Chamberlain in 1939 and a Domestic Prelate in 1946 and he accompanied Archbishop Glennon to Rome when the latter was named a cardinal, and was on hand when Glennon died on the return trip. On May 10,1947, Cody was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis and he was appointed Coadjutor to the Bishop of Saint Joseph, Missouri, on January 27,1954. He was appointed Bishop of Kansas City–Saint Joseph, Missouri, on August 29,1956 and he became an object of national attention as archbishop, due to his predecessor Joseph Rummels efforts to desegregate the Catholic schools in the archdiocese. Cody was opposed to integrating the schools but did not stop the efforts, Cody was appointed Archbishop of Chicago, on June 14,1965, and installed August 24,1965. He was elevated to Cardinal on June 26,1967, roy Larsen, the Religion Editor of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, Legally, the investigations by the paper and the federal prosecutors ended inconclusively. In that sense, the tactics followed by Cody and his lawyers--chiefly a strategy of delays. Eight months before the first story was published, the US Attorneys office issued subpoenas to Cody and the archdiocese, even after the series was published, the stonewalling continued. Finally, the Cardinals health became an issue, on April 25,1982, he died, and in July 1982, Webb terminated the investigation, stating, Once the cardinal passed on, the investigation as to the allegations against the cardinal became moot. Cody often found his view of authority in conflict with a number of priests of his diocese. He was opposed to some of the decisions of Apostolic Delegate Jean Jadot, the opposition waned as Codys health declined in the early 1980s
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Justin Francis Rigali
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Justin Francis Rigali is an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the eighth Archbishop of Philadelphia, having served as Archbishop of St. Louis from 1994 to 2003. Rigali was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003, Rigali previously served as the Committee for Pro-Life Activities chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The youngest of seven children, Justin Rigali was born in Los Angeles, California, to Henry Alphonsus, two of his siblings entered the religious life as well, his sister Charlotte joined the Sisters of St. Joseph, and his brother Norbert the Jesuits. Rigali attended Holy Cross School before entering the seminary in Hancock Park in 1949. He studied philosophy and theology at Los Angeles College, Our Lady Queen of Angels Seminary in San Fernando and he was ordained to the priesthood by James Francis Cardinal McIntyre on April 25,1961, and then did pastoral work in Los Angeles and Downey. In 1961, Rigali earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the Catholic University of America, where he is now a member of the Board of Trustees. In October of that year, he entered the division of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He was also an assistant during the first two sessions of the Second Vatican Council, Rigali briefly returned to the United States in the summer of 1964, during which time he served as an associate pastor in Pomona. Returning to Rome, he studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy from 1964 to 1966 in preparation for his diplomatic work for the Vatican. Rigali began his service in the English section of the Secretariat of State on November 25,1964 and he was named a Papal Chamberlain on July 11,1967. During his service at the Secretariat of State, Rigali was also a chaplain at a Carmelite monastery and he accompanied Pope John Paul II on a number of international pastoral visits, including his first two journeys to the United States in 1979 and 1987. He was made a Prelate of Honor of His Holiness on April 19,1980, on June 8,1985, Rigali was appointed President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy and Titular Archbishop of Volsinium by Pope John Paul II. He selected as his motto, Verbum Caro Factum Est, meaning. He became a member of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre on October 13,1986 and he was named Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops by John Paul II on December 21,1989, as Secretary, he served as the second-highest official of that dicastery. During the same time, he was engaged in pastoral service to a number of parishes and seminaries in Rome. On January 25,1994, Pope John Paul II named Rigali the seventh Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri. Succeeding Archbishop John L. May, he was installed by Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, then the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops
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J. Terry Steib
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James Terry Steib, S. V. D. is an African-American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Bishop of Memphis from 1993 to 2016, the oldest of five children, J. Terry Steib was born in Vacherie, Louisiana, to Rosemond and Vivian Steib. He worked alongside his father in the cane fields of Louisiana. He attended St. Augustine Divine Word Seminary in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi from 1953 to 1957, and graduated from Divine Word Seminary in Conesus, New York, in 1961. He completed his studies also at Divine Word Seminary in Techny, Illinois in 1963. Steib was ordained a priest of the Society of the Divine Word on January 6,1967, in 1976, he was elected to the first of three terms as the provincial superior of the Society of the Divine Words Southern Province. He was also Vice-President of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men from 1979 to 1983, on December 6,1983, Steib was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis and Titular Bishop of Fallaba by Pope John Paul II. He received his consecration on February 10,1984, from Archbishop John L. May, with Bishops George Gottwald and Charles Koester. He was named to succeed Daniel M. Buechlein as the fourth Bishop of Memphis on March 24,1993, during the 2008 presidential election, Steib declared, We cannot be a one issue people. If our conscience is well formed, then we make the right choices about candidates who may not support the Churchs position in every case. Pope Francis accepted his resignation - as is customary when a bishop turns 75 - August 23,2016, National Black Catholc Congress bio of J. Terry Steib National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus bio of J. Terry Steib
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Paul Albert Zipfel
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Paul Albert Zipfel is a retired American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the sixth Bishop of Bismarck, Paul Zipfel was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Albert and Leona Zipfel. He has two siblings, Ralph and Mario. He attended St. Michaels elementary school in from 1940-49, after studying at Kenrick Seminary and the Catholic University of America, Zipfel was ordained to the priesthood on March 18,1961. He then obtained his licentiate in Sacred Theology during the following June, from 1961 to 1989, Zipfel did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, served as an associate pastor, pastor, teacher and administrator at various schools and parishes. To this day, he is revered and loved by many of the former students of Holy Family Catholic School is South St. Louis. On May 16,1989, Zipfel was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis and he received his episcopal consecration on the following June 29 from Archbishop John May, with Bishops ODonnell, SVD and Steib, SVD serving as co-consecrators. Zipfel was named the sixth Bishop of Bismarck, North Dakota, on December 31,1996, within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, he sat on the Administrative Committee and the Priestly Life and Ministry Committee. His resignation from the governance of the Diocese of Bismarck was accepted on October 19,2011. Within a year of retirement, Zipfel was diagnosed with dementia and his family, along with the Diocese of Bismark, decided to move him back to St. Louis to be closer to his family so he could be properly cared for. Currently, Bishop Zipfel lives at Little Sisters of the Poor in Florissant, MO
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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