Edward Joseph O'Donnell

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Edward Joseph O'Donnell (July 4, 1931 – February 1, 2009) was the fifth Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana.^[1]^[2]

Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, O'Donnell was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis on April 6, 1956. On December 6, 1982, Pope John Paul II appointed O'Donnell auxiliary bishop of the Saint Louis Archdiocese, and he was ordained bishop on February 10, 1983. On November 8, 1994, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop O'Donnell Bishop of the Lafayette Diocese in Louisiana. He retired on November 8, 2002 and died in Saint Louis, aged 77.^[3]

Notes

↑ http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20090203/NEWS01/902030319/1002
↑ http://www.dol-louisiana.org/history.html
↑ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bodonnell.html

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Name	Odonnell, Edward Joseph
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Short description	Catholic bishop
Date of birth	July 4, 1931
Place of birth
Date of death	February 1, 2009
Place of death

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