Samuel Alphonsus Stritch
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His Eminence Samuel Alphonsius Stritch |
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| Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Propagation of the Faith | |
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| See | Chicago |
| Appointed | December 27, 1939 |
| Installed | January 3, 1940 |
| Term ended | May 27, 1958 |
| Predecessor | George Mundelein |
| Successor | Albert Gregory Meyer |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura |
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| Ordination | May 21, 1910 by Pietro Respighi |
| Consecration | November 30, 1921 by Henry K. Moeller |
| Created Cardinal | February 18, 1946 by Pius XII |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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August 17, 1887 Nashville, Tennessee |
| Died | May 27, 1958 (aged 70) Rome, Italy |
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| Motto | DEUS MEUS ADJUTOR MEUS (GOD IS MY HELPER) |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Chicago (emeritus) |
Samuel Alphonsius Stritch (August 17, 1887 – May 27, 1958) was an American Cardinal prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1940 to 1958 and as Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Propagation of the Faith from March 1958 until his death later that year. He was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope Pius XII in 1946.
Samuel Stritch was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Garret (1841–1896) and Katherine (née O'Malley) Stritch. His mother immigrated to the United States from Ireland with her parents at a young age, and settled in Louisville, Kentucky, where the family ran a boarding house. His father came to Louisville from Dublin in 1879, boarded with the O'Malleys, and married Katherine in 1880. Garret later worked as the manager of Sycamore Mills, a subsidiary of DuPont, in Nashville. The second youngest of eight children, Samuel had two brothers and five sisters and they attended the Church of the Assumption.
Considered something of a child prodigy, he finished grammar school at age 10 and high school at 14. In 1901, he entered St. Gregory's Preparatory Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1903. Bishop Thomas Sebastian Byrne then sent Stritch to study at the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum De Propaganda Fide in Rome, where he resided at the Pontifical North American College. He later earned his doctorates in philosophy and in theology. While in Rome, he also befriended Eugenio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII.
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