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Joseph Patrick Dougherty
Bishop of Yakima
In office
1951-1969
Orders
Ordination
June 14, 1930
Consecration
September 26, 1952 by Archbishop Thomas Arthur Connolly
Personal details
Born
(1905-01-11)January 11, 1905 Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
On July 9, 1951, Dougherty was appointed the first Bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Yakima by Pope Pius XII.[2] He received his episcopalconsecration on the following September 26 from Archbishop Thomas Arthur Connolly, with Bishops Charles Daniel White and Hugh Aloysius Donohoe serving as co-consecrators.[2] He attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965. After eighteen years as Bishop of Yakima, he resigned on February 5, 1969; he was named Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, California, and Titular Bishop of Altinum by Pope Paul VI on the same date.[2] He died at age 65 and is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Yakima, WA.
References[]
^ abcCurtis, Georgina Pell (1961). The American Catholic Who's Who. Vol. XIV. Grosse Pointe, Michigan: Walter Romig.