Oscar Hugh Lipscomb

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Oscar Hugh Lipscomb
Senior posting
See	Mobile
Title	Archbishop of Mobile
Period in office	November 16, 1980—April 2, 2008
Predecessor	John Lawrence May
Successor	Thomas John Rodi
Religious career
Priestly ordination	July 15, 1956
Personal
Date of birth	September 21, 1931 (1931-09-21) (age 76)
Place of birth	Mobile, Alabama

Oscar Hugh Lipscomb (b. September 21, 1931, Mobile, Alabama) is the retired Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama. Lipscomb's retirement was accepted by the Holy See April 2, 2008. He was appointed the Administrator of the Archdiocese until Archbishop-Designate Thomas John Rodi was formally installed took possession of the Archdiocese at an installation Mass celebrated on Friday, June 6, 2008, at 3:00 p.m., at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Mobile.

He was the first Archbishop of Mobile and its eighth bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham on July 15, 1956. He was appointed Archbishop of Mobile on July 29, 1980,and consecrated on November 16, 1980, by his predecessor, Archbishop John Lawrence May. The Diocese of Mobile was elevated to the Archdiocese of Mobile on the date Lipscomb was appointed its first archbishop.

He attended McGill-Toolen Catholic High School in Mobile, then known as McGill Institute, where today an athletic complex is named in his honor. He acquired his Ph.D. degree in History from Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1963.

Lipscomb served as a parish priest in Mobile and as an educator at McGill Institute and Spring Hill College. He was appointed chancellor of the Mobile archdiocese in 1966, and served in that capacity until he was appointed Archbishop of Mobile in 1980.

Styles of Oscar Hugh Lipscomb


Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	His Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	not applicable