Richard Oliver Gerow

Richard Oliver Gerow †
Bishop of Natchez-Jackson
See	Diocese of Natchez-Jackson
In office	June 25, 1924—December 2, 1967
Predecessor	John Edward Gunn †
Successor	Joseph Bernard Brunini †
Orders
Ordination	June 5, 1909
Personal details
Born	May 3, 1885 Mobile, Alabama
Died	December 20, 1976 Jackson, Mississippi

Richard Oliver Gerow (May 3, 1885 – December 20, 1976) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Natchez-Jackson from 1924 to 1967.

Richard Gerow was born in Mobile, Alabama, one of two children of Warren Rosencranz and Annie A. (née Skehan) Gerow. His father, a native of Mobile and convert to Catholicism, built floats for Mardi Gras for the Order of Myths. His mother was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1863. Following his father's death in 1894, his mother supported the family by renting out small cottages and establishing a dressmaking business.

Gerow was educated by a private tutor before attending Cathedral Grammar School in Mobile. He then attended McGill Institute from 1897 until 1901, when he enrolled at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He graduated from Mount St. Mary's in 1904 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and then began his studies for the priesthood at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. Among his fellow seminarians at the North American College were Edward Mooney, James Hugh Ryan, and Thomas Edmund Molloy. He earned a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree in 1909.

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