Edward D. Kelly

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St. Charles College

Edward Denis (also Dionysius

Diocese of Grand Rapids
in Michigan from 1919 until his death in 1926.

Biography

Early life

Edward Kelly was born on December 30, 1860, in

St. Charles College in Catonsville, Maryland. Kelly finished his formation for the priesthood at St. Joseph's Seminary in Troy, New York.[2] [3]

Priesthood

Kelly was

ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Detroit in Windsor on June 16, 1886 by Bishop Caspar Borgess.[4] After his ordination, Kelly was appointed as assistant pastor at St. Philip's Parish in Battle Creek, Michigan. In late 1887, he also joined the faculty of St. Francis Seminary in Monroe, Michigan; he was named as vice rector two years later. Also in 1889, he was moved to pastoral positions first at St. John's Parish in Monroe and then to St. Joseph's Parish in Dexter, Michigan.[2]

Kelly was named as an examiner for the diocese in 1891, a post he would hold until 1919. He was also named pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Parish in Ann Arbor, Michigan. While there, he constructed a larger church between 1896 and 1899, using the architectural firm Spier & Rohns.[5]

Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit

On December 9, 1910,

episcopal consecration on January 26 1910, from Cardinal James Gibbons, with Bishops Henry Richter and Camillus Maes serving as co-consecrators. [4]

Kelly was a major contributor to the founding of

sorority at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He also supported the Foley Guild, the Catholic student association at the university. He allowed the guild to have social events at St. Thomas Parish in Ann Arbor, although he banned tango dancing at parties there in 1914.[6]

During

Michigan State Constitution that would have required all children between ages five and 16 to attend public schools.[6][8]

Bishop of Grand Rapids

On January 16, 1919, Pope Benedict XV named Kelly as the third bishop of the Diocese of Grand Rapids; he was installed on May 20, 1919.[4]

Edward Kelly died on March 26, 1926, at the episcopal residence in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from a hemorrhage or embolism. He was age 65.[2][3]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-509379-7
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  2. ^ a b c d "KELLY, Edward Denis". Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids. Archived from the original on June 20, 2006. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  3. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  4. ^ a b c "Bishop Edward Denis Kelly". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  5. ^ St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church (Ann Arbor, Michigan), p. 142
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8143-4399-9
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  7. ^ Bulletin of the Grand Rapids Public Library. issued from the Ryerson Public Library Building. 1917.
  8. ISBN 978-0-472-02139-0
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