Joseph M. Marling
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
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Joseph Mary Marling, CPPS (August 31, 1904—October 2, 1979) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Jefferson City from 1956 to 1969.
Joseph Marling was born in Centralia, West Virginia, and was ordained as a priest of the Society of Precious Blood by Archbishop John McNicholas, OP, on February 21, 1929. After a period of academic and pastoral work, he was elected provincial of his religious institute's American province in 1939.
On June 7, 1947, Marling was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Kansas City, Missouri and Titular Bishop of Thasus by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following August 6 from Archbishop Edwin O'Hara, with Bishops Joseph Albers and John Bennett serving as co-consecrators, at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral. He chose as his episcopal motto, Per Sanguinem Crucis, meaning “Through the Blood of the Cross." In an address to the Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists, he suggested that the clergy should receive psychiatrict treatment.
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