Lawrence Cardinal Shehan
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| See | Baltimore |
| Title | Cardinal Archbishop |
| Period in office | 8 December 1961 - 25 March 1974 |
| Raised to cardinalate | 22 February 1965 |
| Predecessor | Francis Patrick Keough |
| Successor | William Donald Borders |
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| Date of birth | 18 March, 1898 |
| Place of birth | Baltimore |
Lawrence Joseph Cardinal Shehan (born March 18, 1898, Baltimore, Maryland; died August 26, 1984) was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
He did his early studies in Ellicott City beofre graduating to the seminary in Baltimore and later to the major pontifical seminary in Rome, where he was ordained in 1922. Most of the following two decades of Shehan's life was spend in pastoral work in Washington and Maryland, but he was the assistant director of the large charity organisation Catholic Charities for a decade from 1936 to 1945.
Appointed auxiliary bishop of Baltimore and Washington, Shehan became auxiliary bishop of Baltimore when that diocese was separated from the Archdiocese of Washington in 1947. He was transferred to another newly created diocese, Bridgeport, in 1953. In 1961 he returned to Baltimore as coadjutor, with right of succession as Archbishop of Baltimore.
Shehan became Archbishop of Baltimore in 1961 and participated in the Second Vatican Council. Pope Paul VI made him a cardinal in 1965. It was cruel luck for Shehan that he never was able to participate in a papal conclave: he was the last cardinal to turn eighty prior to the August 1978 conclave and Pope Paul's new rule that cardinals over eighty were excluded was resented by him when Paul died.
| Preceded by erected |
Bishop of Bridgeport 1953 – 1961 |
Succeeded by Walter W Curtis |
| Preceded by Francis Patrick Keough |
Archbishop of Baltimore 1961 – 1974 |
Succeeded by William Donald Borders |
