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2 unusual facts about Oscar Hugh Lipscomb


Oscar Hugh Lipscomb

Archbishop Lipscomb came into the national spotlight in the United States in the early 1990s due to the controversy involving Rev. David C. Trosch, a priest of the Archdiocese serving in Magnolia Springs, a community in south Baldwin County, southeast of Mobile.

After graduating from McGill in 1949, he entered St. Bernard Junior Seminary and College, in Cullman, Alabama.


Thomas John Rodi

Pope Benedict XVI later named Rodi the second Archbishop of Mobile on April 2, 2008, replacing longtime incumbent Oscar Hugh Lipscomb.


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