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Meyer, Albert, 1903-1965

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Personal name headingMeyer, Albert, 1903-1965
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Variant(s)Meyer, Cardinal (Albert), 1903-1965
Birth date1903-03-09
Death date1965-04-09
Profession or occupationPriests Bishops Cardinals
Found inNUCMC data from Chicago Hist. Soc., Archives and Mss. Dept. (Ill.) for Cantwell, D.M. Papers, 1931-1980 (Cardinal Meyer)
The Off. Catholic dir., 1986: p. 162 (under Archdiocese of Chicago: Albert Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chicago; d. Apr. 9, 1965)
Bio. and gen. master ind., c1980: v. 5, p. 304 (Meyer, Cardinal Albert, 1903-1965)
Archdiocese of Milwaukee website, viewed Oct. 27, 2016: Former Archbishops (Archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer; His Eminence Albert Gregory Meyer, S.T.D., S.S.L, 1953-1958; born on March 9, 1903, in Milwaukee; ordained a priest on July 11, 1926, in Rome; Meyer was appointed bishop of the Superior Diocese in Wisconsin and was consecrated bishop in 1946; He was appointed archbishop of Milwaukee on July 21, 1953; Appointed to succeed Cardinal Stritch in Chicago, Meyer left Milwaukee on September 24, 1958, and was installed as archbishop of Chicago on November 16, 1958; Meyer was made cardinal on December 14, 1959; Cardinal Meyer died in Chicago, from a brain tumor, on April 9, 1965)