OSCAR HUGH LIPSCOMB

Archbishop 'Oscar Hugh Lipscomb, DD, Ph.D' (b. September 21 1931, Mobile, Alabama) is the first and current Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama.
He is 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. 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.
On September 21 2006, Lipscomb turned 75, which required him to submit his formal resignation to Pope Benedict XVI, which, as of July 2007, had not been accepted.

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★ Catholic-Hierarchy.org data

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★ Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile