Joseph M. Marling

Styles of
Joseph Marling
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Monsignor
Posthumous style none

Joseph Mary Marling, CPPS (August 31, 1904—October 2, 1979) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Jefferson City from 1956 to 1969.

Biography

Joseph Marling was born in Centralia, West Virginia, and was ordained as a priest of the Society of Precious Blood by Archbishop John McNicholas, OP, on February 21, 1929. After a period of academic and pastoral work, he was elected provincial of his religious institute's American province in 1939.

On June 7, 1947, Marling was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Kansas City, Missouri and Titular Bishop of Thasus by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following August 6 from Archbishop Edwin O'Hara, with Bishops Joseph Albers and John Bennett serving as co-consecrators, at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral. He chose as his episcopal motto, Per Sanguinem Crucis, meaning “Through the Blood of the Cross." In an address to the Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists, he suggested that the clergy should receive psychiatrict treatment.[1]

Marling was later named the first Bishop of Jefferson City on August 29, 1956. During his tenure, he oversaw the construction of a new cathedral, twenty-five churches, twenty-nine schools, thirty rectories, sixteen convents, and a Carmelite monastery. The Bishop also established the diocesan newspaper and missions in Peru. He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and resigned as Bishop on July 2, 1969. Upon his retirement, he was appointed Titular Bishop of Lesina, a post which he gave up on January 16, 1976 (and would then be known as Bishop Emeritus of Jefferson City).

Marling died in Kansas City, at age 75. His remains were interred in the Precious Blood Community Cemetery on the seminary grounds in Carthagena, Ohio.

References

  1. ↑ TIME Magazine. Saintly Neurotics August 27, 1956
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
none		 Bishop of Jefferson City
1956–1969 		Succeeded by
Michael Francis McAuliffe
Preceded by
–		 Auxiliary Bishop of Kansas City
1947–1956 		Succeeded by
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