MSGR. MEDEIRO
AMED IS -UP
Pope Paul Appoints Diocesan Chancellor
To Diocese of Brownsville,· Texas
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A dedicated corps of Special Gift Committeemen for 25th Catholic Charities Appeal are in the midst of \'Meir work in advance of the General Phase of the Appeal )W'hich opens on Sunday, May 1, as the house' to house ~mpaign will be conducted Protestant imd Jewish faiths as fum all parishes of the Diocese. well as from Catholics. -During the Special Gifts Outstanding monuments to 'the generosity of Appeal donors in. [Ilmase, business and· profes ~e
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Most Reverend Humberto S. Medeiros ,
Pope Honors Four Monsignori Protonotaries Apostolic First in History of Diocese
Bishop Medeiros was born in , Arrifes, Sao Miguel, Azores, on October 6, 1915. His parents were Antonio' Sousa Medeiros and Maria de Jesus Sousa -Massa Flor. His father passed away on February 9, 1950; his mother on September 26, 1963. He attended Candido Afonso MSGR. JAS. DOLAN MSGR. GALLAGHER MSGR. CONSIDINE MSGR.BEJRUBE elementary school- in his native TauntoD New Bedford FaIR River New Bedford town. After graduation, he worked in a wholesale store and in the law office of attorney Jose Pope Paul VI today hon in the 62-year history .of the', Rt. Rev. James Dolan, pastor Oliveira San-Bento in Ponta title has been of St. Mary's Church, Taunton, diocese that -.ed four diocesan priests by bestowed Delga~a, Sao Miguel. upon IlJl¥ of the priests and, a diocesan consultor. l)ppOinting them as proto of the diocese. The honored four In April 1931, before he ,was Rt. Rev. Hugh A. Gallagher, Mtaries. It is the first time iKe: Tum to Page Twenti-twe l i ~ears of age, ~ ~other 0
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His Holiness Pope Paul VI haS announced through Most, Rev. Egidio Vagnozzi, D.D., Apostolic Delegate to the United States, the appointment of Rt. Rev. Humberto S.Medeiros, S.T.D., .chancellor of the Diocese of Fall River and pastor of St. Michael's Parish, Fall River, as Bishop of the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas. ' . Bishop-Elect Medeiros succeeds the' late Most Rev. Adolph Marx, first Bishop of Brownsville, who died on Nov. 1, 1965 in Cologne, Germany, as he visited his mother while' . in Europe for Vatican Council II. The Diocese of Brownsville was established on July 21. 1965, from the Diocese of Corpus Christi. Its general. popu lation is 371,348 and its Catholics numoer 234,700. It is 4,226 miles in area and comprises the fouJ" counties of Starr, Hidalgo, WiHacy and Cameron. The See city of Brownsville is situated in Southeast Texas, at the mouth. of the Rio Grande River where the river flows into the Gulf of Mexico. ' 'brought him, his brothers Lionel and Manuel and his sister Na talia, to Fall Riyer, where his father awaited them: He attend ed the Border City and Danforth Street schools in Fall River and the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, prior to seeking employment al! a sweeper in the Sagamore Mills in the .Fall of 1932. On January 8, 1935; he entered B, M. C. Durfee High School in Fall River, from which he graduated in june 1937. in the Fall of the same year, . B ish 0 p James E. ,Cessiq Turn to Page Twelve· ~