Joseph Schrembs

The Most Reverend Joseph Schrembs
Bishop of Cleveland

Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Cincinnati
Diocese	Cleveland
See	Cleveland
In office	June 16, 1921–November 2, 1945
Predecessor	John Patrick Farrelly
Successor	Edward Francis Hoban
Orders
Ordination	June 29, 1889 by Henry Richter
Consecration	February 22, 1911 by Henry Richter Camillus Paul Maes John Samuel Foley
Personal details
Born	(1866-03-12)March 12, 1866 Wutzlhofen, Regensburg, Germany
Died	November 2, 1945(1945-11-02) (aged 79) Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Buried	Cathedral Resurrection Chapel
Nationality	German
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February 22, 1911
by Henry Richter

Priest of the Diocese of Grand Rapids (1889–1911)

Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Grand Rapids (February 22, 1911-August 1, 1911)

Joseph Schrembs (March 12, 1866 – November 2, 1945) was a German-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the bishop of the Diocese of Toledo (1911–21) and the Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio (1921–45).

Joseph Schrembs was born in the village of Wutzlhofen (since 1924 a township of Regensburg), Bavaria. One of sixteen children, he was born to George and Mary (née Gäß) Schrembs. Shortly afterwards he and his family moved to Regensburg, where Joseph received his early education. In 1877 he came to the United States under the patronage of Bishop Rupert Seidenbusch, and enrolled at St. Vincent's College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where his older brother Rudesind had become a Benedictine monk. After completing his classical course at St. Vincent's at age sixteen, he taught at the parochial school of St. Martin's Church until 1884. He was then accepted as a seminarian by Bishop Henry Richter of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who sent him to study philosophy and theology at the Grand Seminary of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.