Robert Emmet Lucey

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Styles of Robert Emmet Lucey
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	His Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	not applicable

Archbishop Robert Emmet Lucey (16 March 1891 – 1 August 1977) was the second Bishop of Amarillo and the second Archbishop of San Antonio.^[1]

Early years[]

Lucey was born in Los Angeles, California to John Joseph and Marie Lucey on March 16, 1891. He began his college education at St. Vincent's College and completed the rest at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park in 1912. Robert completed his graduate studies at North American College in Rome and in 1916, received his doctorate in Sacred Theology at the University of the Propaganda in Rome. On May 14, 1916 Robert Lucey was ordained a priest in the Church of St. Apollinaris in Rome. Archbishop Cepetelli, Patriarch of Constantinople and Vice Regent of Rome conducted the ordination. Lucey returned to Los Angeles where he held a series of positions that would serve as experience as a bishop.^[2]

Adult life[]

California[]

During the next five years in Los Angeles, Lucey was assistant pastor of several parishes which included St. Vibiana's Cathedral, Immaculate Conception Parish, Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, and St. Anthony's in Long Beach. Among the positions that he held were Chaplain of the Newman Club at the University of Los Angeles and Diocesan Director of Catholic Charities (1921–1925) of the California Conference of Social Work (1923–24), director of Catholic Hospitals for the Diocese of Los Angeles-San Diego (1924–1934), and member of the Executive Board of the California State Department of Social Welfare (1924–1930). He was appointed Bishop of Amarillo on February 10, 1934.^[3]

Texas[]

On March 1, 1934, Archbishop Amleto Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., consecrated Lucey bishop of Amarillo at St. Vibiana's Cathedral in Los Angeles. There he established a newspaper called the Texas Panhandle Register. On January 23, 1941 Pope Pius XII appointed Lucey Archbishop of San Antonio. His installation, again presided by Cicognani, took place at the Cathedral of San Fernando on March 27.^[3] Lucey helped establish the Yorktown Memorial Hospital, the Czech Catholic Home for the Aged, and the Huth Memorial Hospital and created 29 clinics throughout Southwest Texas. He cofounded the juvenile rehabilitation program the Patrician Movement and created the equal play advocacy organization Project Equality in 1965.^[4]

On July 4, 1969, Lucey retired. He was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, which had been built on a plot of land in Bexar County that he'd acquired for the church.^[5]

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External links[]

• "Archbishop Robert Emmet Lucey †". Catholic-Hierarchy. ^{[self-published]}