Joseph Gregory Vath
Joseph Gregory Vath
Bishop Joseph Gregory Vath (March 12, 1918 – July 14, 1987) served as a Roman Catholic bishop and the first Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama.
Biography[]
Vath was born March 12, 1918, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 7, 1941.
Vath was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Mobile-Birmingham on March 4, 1966, and consecrated on May 26, 1966. He was appointed Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama, on September 29, 1969, when the Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham was split into the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mobile.
He died July 14, 1987.
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