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7 unusual facts about monsignor


Ambrose Burke

Monsignor Ambrose J. Burke (November 27, 1895 – October 6, 1998) was an English professor and Catholic priest who served as the eighth president of Saint Ambrose University (then Saint Ambrose College) from 1940 through 1956.

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

A Monsignor (Rupert Davies) comes to the village on a routine visit only to find the altar boy is now a frightened mute and the Priest (Ewan Hooper) has apparently lost his faith.

John Francis Regis

In 1633, Régis went to the Diocese of Viviers at the invitation of the local bishop, Monsignor Louis II de la Baume de Suze, giving missions throughout the diocese.

John M. J. Quinn

John M. J. Quinn (1886–1955) was a Monsignor and from 1951 to 1955 head of St. Francis Xavier's Church in the Bronx, New York, and also head of the Catholic War Veterans.

Juan Subercaseaux

Monsignor Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz (August 26, 1896 - August 9, 1942) was a Chilean Roman Catholic archbishop.

La Roche College

La Roche's sixth president, Monsignor William A. Kerr, was appointed in 1992 and focused his leadership on raising the College's visibility, while broadening academic, cultural and athletic programs.

Merlin Guilfoyle

Monsignor Merlin Joseph Guilfoyle (July 15, 1908 – November 20, 1981) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.


A Dawn in the West

The 9-foot bronze figure of Baldwin stands on a 4-foot plinth set in the Monsignor Gerald M. O’Keefe Rose Garden at the intersection of Huntington Drive and Holly Avenue, near Gate 3, the south entrance of Santa Anita Park race track.

Alfredo Ottaviani

At the Vatican they encountered Monsignor Alphonso Carinci and Cardinal Augustin Bea, Pope Pius XII's confessor, who advised presenting the typed manuscript directly to Pope Pius XII, through a recommended intermediary, which was accomplished in 1947.

Angelo Dell'Acqua

In 1954, then Monsignor Dell'Acqua received a phone call from an ill Pope Pius XII, who was suffering from gastric problems, and quickly called for the latter's physician, Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi.

Cardiff Deanery

The dean will be Monsignor John Maguire, current dean of Cardiff West and parish priest at St Mary's Canton.

Cerasi Chapel

The chapel was purchased in July 1600 by Monsignor Tiberio Cerasi, Consistorial Advocate and Treasurer-General to Pope Clement VIII.

Co-Redemptrix

since 2002, have an approval of the diocesan bishop, Monsignor Jos Punt.

D'Arcy Osborne, 12th Duke of Leeds

He was one of the group, which he supported with his own money, led by Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty and a French diplomat François de Vial who both helped conceal some 4,000 escapees, both Allied soldiers and Jews, from the Nazis; 3,925 survived the war.

Donald Kiernan

In 1969, he was named Prelate of Honor (Reverend Monsignor) by Pope Paul VI and was bestowed the highest rank of Monsignor, Protonotary Apostolic, in 1979 by Pope John Paul I.

Enrico Berlinguer

After the surprising opening of 1970 toward conservatives, and the still discussed proposal of the Historic Compromise, he published a correspondence with Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, the Bishop of Ivrea; it was an astonishing event, since Pope Pius XII had excommunicated the Communists soon after World War II, and the possibility of any relationship between communists and Catholics seemed very unlikely.

Esteban María Laxague

Then he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Viedma on October 21, 2002 by HH Pope John Paul II taking over on a formal Mass on December 21, 2002 being ordained Bishop by Monsignor Marcelo Angiolo Melani and his co consecrators: Monsignor Agustín Roberto Radrizzani and Monsignor Jorge Mayer -then Archbishop Emeritus of Bahía Blanca-.

Francis Hong Yong-ho

The Pontifical Yearbook continues to describe as "missing" the man who was the bishop of Pyong-yang at the time, Monsignor Francis Hong Yong-ho, who today would be a hundred years old.

Frederick R. McManus

Monsignor Frederick Richard McManus (born February 8, 1923, Lynn, Massachusetts – died November 27, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American Roman Catholic priest and academic, who served as a peritus on the liturgy at the Second Vatican Council.

Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh

This project dated back to 1670, when it was instigated by the secretary of Propaganda Fide, Monsignor Baldeschi, who, along with Cardinal Altieri, were among his most influential friends and contacts in the city.

Giovanni Andrea Tria

When Monsignor Firrao, for reasons of health, was reassigned to Switzerland, Tria traveled with him to Lucerne.

Graham Leonard

He was conditionally ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church and was later appointed a monsignor by Pope John Paul II.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Monsignor Ryan (Cecil Kellaway), a Catholic priest and friend of Matt's, is also present at dinner and is a voice for tolerance.

James Aloysius Griffin

In 1939 he joined Bishop John Mark Gannon and Monsignor Michael Joseph Ready in a visit to Mexico to confer with Archbishop Luis Martínez on a seminary founded in Las Vegas, New Mexico, to supply priests for the Mexican Church, since seminaries were at that time illegal in that country.

Jean-Paul Vesco

After passing through the École Biblique, he moved to Algeria to Tlemcen in the Diocese of Oran where he responded to the call of his order to refound a Dominican presence, six years after the assassination of Monsignor Pierre Claverie.

John Chew

Representatives of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill, the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Singapore, the Most Reverend Monsignor Nicholas Chia, the Bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore, Dr Robert M Solomon and Dr Ong Chit Chung, Member of Parliament of Jurong GRC were among those who were present at the occasion.

Juan Bautista Aguirre

He was a friend of the bishop of Tivoli, Monsignor Gregorio Bamaba Chiaramonti, future Pope Pius VII.

Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín

Monsignor Larrea Holguín was a professor in various Ecuadorian universities, including the Catholic University of Guayaquil of and Central University of Ecuador.

Lionel Newman

He was the musical supervisor for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Monsignor, and The Fury.

Lordship of Champlain

In 1684, Monsignor François de Montmorency-Laval gives the official titles to the Catholic parish of Champlain, twenty years after the creation of the Lordship of Champlain, pointing out that the place is commonly called "Champlain".

Manuel de Jesús Jiménez Oreamuno

He collaborated with Monsignor Victor Sanabria Martínez, second Archbishop of San José, Costa Rica in his work "Genealogy of Cartago from 1650 until 1850", managing to prove a profound knowledge of the collection of protocols of the National Archive of Costa Rica, and contributing important elements to the understanding of the studied lineage in said work.

Master of ceremonies

The current papal Master of Ceremonies is Monsignor Guido Marini who succeeded Archbishop Piero Marini to whom he is not related.

Moreno de Souza

Being persuaded by Monsignor Ayres Fernandes from Siolim to write in his own mother tongue, Moreno, as a boy, began writing in Konkani.

Mothers of East Los Angeles

Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA), started in 1986, as a group of Latina mothers under the guidance of Monsignor John Moretta of Resurrection Church with the dedication to fight the proposed construction of a state prison in East Los Angeles by Governor Deukmejian.

Murphy Wiredu

He first played soccer at Monsignor Johnson Catholic High School in North York, where he was captain of the soccer team and also earned MVP honours for the volleyball team.

Ngina Kenyatta

Monsignor George Muhoho, Roman Catholic chaplain at University of Nairobi is one of her brothers.

Old St. Scholastica's Academy

Due to the large number of enrollees, and the zeal of its biggest benefactor, Monsignor Prudencio David, the school was relocated to its second site in 1931, and ownership of the school was passed on to the Benedictine Sisters in 1938.

Peter Brian Wells

Pope Francis by chirograph named Monsignor Wells secretary of the five member Pontifical Commission responsible for investigating the Institute for the Works of Religion.

Pontifical Mission for Palestine

In June 2011, Monsignor John E. Kozar was appointed by Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan, the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, as President of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association and President of the Mission.

Roman Catholic Diocese of San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto

He will be succeeded by Bishop-elect Reverend Monsignor Carlo Bresciani, who up until now had been serving as a member of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brescia, where he was Rector of the Diocesan Seminary.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler

On September 29, 2012, it was announced by the diocese's website, and by the Holy See - on the Vatican's Holy See Press Office Vatican Information Service (VIS) site – that Monsignor Joseph E. Strickland had been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to serve as the fourth bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Tyler.

Roman Catholicism in El Salvador

San Salvador was made an archdiocese on February 11, 1913 with Monsignor Antonio Adolfo Perez as first Archbishop.

Roseville, Newark, New Jersey

In the wake of the 1967 riots, the pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church, Monsignor William J. Linder, founded the New Community Corporation, a highly successful jobs, housing, and medical care charity.

Social innovation

This initiative, headed by Monsignor David Cappo, South Australia's Social Inclusion Commissioner, was advised by 'Thinkers in Residence' Geoff Mulgan and New York social entrepreneur Rosanne Haggerty.

St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Church

Other special events were the organization of a concert where guests from Samobor, Croatia put on a wonderful performance, the promotion of newly released books written by parishioners, a banquet and short program commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Aloysius Stepinac, where Monsignor Juraj Batelja and Bishop Franjo Komarica from Zagreb honored the parish with their powerful presence for this special occasion.

The Origins of Monstrosity

Sister Jude (Jessica Lange) finally gets evidence of Dr. Arden's (James Cromwell) horrific past, but puts someone's life and her career at stake as Arden, Monsignor Howard (Joseph Fiennes), and Sister Mary Eunice (Lily Rabe) indirectly form an evil union.

Thomastown

Monsignor Tommy Maher played hurling with the local club Thomastown and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the 1940s and coached Kilkenny to seven senior All-Ireland titles between 1957 and 1978.

Tito Sarrocchi

For the cathedral of Massa Marittima, he sculpted a gothic monument for monsignor Traversi, with three statues and a bas-relief.

Victoria Montesi

Montesi is the only child of Monsignor Vittorio Montesi; the Montesi line was long ago designated as the guardians of the Darkhold, a tome of ancient black magic which has the potential to summon the Elder God Chthon to wreak havoc upon the Earth, but Victoria, half-American, disbelieves her father's claims and takes up hospital work in Rome, where she lives with her lover, karate instructor Natasha "Nash" Salvato.

W. W. McDowell

:The Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Paschal Robinson, stayed by his side to the end.


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