Joseph Gregory Vath

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Bishop Joseph Gregory Vath, born March 12, 1918, in New Orleans, Louisiana, was a Roman Catholic bishop and the first Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 7, 1941. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Mobile-Birmingham on March 4, 1966, and ordained on May 26, 1966. He was appointed Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama, on September 29, 1969, when the Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham was split into the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile. He died July 14, 1987.

Preceded by None

Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama 1969–1987

Succeeded by Raymond James Boland

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