Austin Dowling
| Austin Dowling | |
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| Archbishop of St. Paul | |
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| Diocese | Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Installed | 1919 |
| Term ended | 1930 |
| Predecessor | John Ireland |
| Successor | John Murray |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | June 24, 1891 |
| Consecration | April 25, 1912 |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Daniel Austin Dowling |
| Born | April 6, 1868 New York City, New York |
| Died | November 29, 1930 Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
Daniel Austin Dowling (April 6, 1868 – November 29, 1930) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines and the second Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
Dowling was born in New York City on April 6, 1868, to Daniel and Mary Teresa Santry Dowling. On April 19 was baptized, and given his Christian name Daniel Austin. Not long after, his family moved to Newport, Rhode Island. At Newport, he was a student at the Academy of the Sisters of Mercy. Dowling attended Manhattan College in New York City, and graduated with his A.B. degree with high honors in 1887.
Dowling made his theological studies at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, and at the Catholic University.
Dowling was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on June 24, 1891 for the Diocese of Providence. Afterwards, he worked on his graduate studies in theology and church history at the Catholic University.
After serving as a pastor in Warren, Rhode Island for a year, Dowling went to the Brighton Seminary where, for two and a half years he taught Church History. History was always a passion of Dowling. Marvin O'Connell stated that he was "a man who was by taste, habit and profession an historian; he could not set about finding solutions to problems facing him until he examined those problems in the light of the past." Even his sermons as Bishop of Des Moines and as Archbishop of St. Paul were mainly of an historical character. He was one of the first to welcome the creation of the Catholic Historical Review, and one of the first life members of the American Catholic Historical Association.
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