Thomas Joseph Toolen
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The Most Reverend Thomas Joseph Toolen |
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| Bishop of Mobile | |
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Thomas Joseph Toolen
about the time of his episcopal consecration |
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| See | Mobile |
| Installed | February 28, 1927 |
| Term ended | September 29, 1969 |
| Predecessor | Edward Patrick Allen |
| Successor | John L. May |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | September 27, 1910 |
| Consecration | May 4, 1927 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 28, 1886 Baltimore, Maryland |
| Died | December 4, 1976 (aged 90) Mobile, Alabama |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
Thomas Joseph Toolen (February 28, 1886 – December 4, 1976) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mobile from 1927 to 1969, and was given the personal title of Archbishop in 1954.
Thomas Joseph Toolen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, one of six children of Thomas and Mary (née Dowd) Toolen. His parents were both natives of County Roscommon, Ireland, and his father died in 1897. Toolen received his early education at the parochial school of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, and attended Loyola High School and Loyola College.
When he first told his mother he wanted to enter the priesthood at age 12, she expressed her doubt but finally agreed to send Thomas to a seminary when he came of age. He made his theological studies at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore.
On September 27, 1910, Joseph Toolen was ordained a priest by Cardinal James Gibbons at the Cathedral of the Assumption. He then went to study canon law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he earned a Bachelor's degree in 1912. His first assignment was as a curate at St. Bernard Church in Baltimore, where he remained until he was named archdiocesan director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in 1925.
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