First Black Bishop Consecrated

First Black Bishop Consecrated

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Religious Studies, History, Social Studies

9th - 10th Grade

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The video covers the historic consecration of Joseph O. Bowers as the first Negro Roman Catholic Bishop in the U.S. The ceremony, officiated by Cardinal Spellman, took place in Mississippi. Bishop Bowers, originally from the British West Indies, was trained at St. Augustine Seminary. He will serve in Accra, British West Africa, where he first went as a missionary in 1940.

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