George Albert Hammes

George Albert Hammes (September 11, 1911 – April 11, 1993) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin from 1960 to 1985.^[1]

Biography

Hammes was born in St. Joseph, a hamlet in the town of Greenfield, La Crosse County, Wisconsin. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on May 22, 1937 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Crosse. Father Hammes was chancellor under Bishop John Patrick Treacy and taught at Aquinas High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

On March 28, 1960, Pope John XXIII appointed him to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Superior and he was consecrated Bishop on May 24, 1960. Bishop Hammes retired on June 27, 1985 and died in La Crosse, Wisconsin; he was buried in Superior, Wisconsin.^[2]

See also

References

Sources

• Fisher, Father Gerald Edward, Dusk is My Dawn:The First Hundred Years of the Diocese of La Crosse, 1969, pg.160. Paragraph about Bishop Hammes.
• Aquinas News, Aquinas High School, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 'Msgr. Hammes Bishop-Elect of Superior', April 29, 1960, vol. 29, no. 8, pg.1. Article about Monsignor Hammes appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Superior. Monsignor Hammes taught religion and Latin at Aquinas High School from 1938 until 1942.

External links

• Diocese of Superior

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