Boys Town High School - Pylon Yearbook (Boys Town, NE)

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THB MosT Rev. GERALD T. BERGAN ARCHBISHOP OF OM.-XHA The Most Rev. Gerald T. Bergan, Archbishop of Omaha, is President of the Board of Trustees of Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Since his elevation as Archbishop of Omaha, Arch- bishop Bergan has taken an active interest in the affairs of the home, and visits Boys Town frequently. He was the commencement speaker at the 1950 graduation ex- ercises of the Boys Town grade and high schools, and in 1951 he celebrated the Solemn Pontifical High Mass on Christmas Eve which was televised from Boys Town over the nationwide facilities of the Columbia Broad- casting Company television network. In Appreciation Archbishop Bergan Archbishop Bergan was born january 6, 1892, in Peoria, Illinois. He was graduated there from Spaulding Institute in 1909. In the fall of that year he enrolled at St. Viator's College, Bourbonnais, Illinois. After re- ceiving his degree of Bachelor of Arts, he studied at the North American College in Rome. His excellence as a student was so great that he was selected for ordi- nation at the end of his third year, despite the fact that his youth ihe was only 231 made a special dispensation necessary. He was ordained in Rome on October 28, 1915, by the Cardinal Vicar, and celebrated his first Mass October 29 at the Tomb of St. Peter. Following his ordination to the priesthood, he continued his studies in Rome, specializing in canon law and Church history. In 1916 he returned to the United States, and was appointed assistant pastor of St. Marys Cathedral in Four years later he was named Chancelor of the diocese, and in 1926 he became pastor of St. The following year he became Vicar General Peoria. Peoria Mary's. of the diocese, and upon the death of the Most Rev. Dunne, Bishop of Peoria, he was the adminis- E. M. trator of the diocese. I-Ie was reappointed Vicar Gen- eral by the Most Rev. J. H. Schlarman, and soon there- after was named a Monsignor. In 1934. after 18 years in his native city, he was appointed Bishop of Des Moines by Pope Plus XI. In February, 1948 he became Archbishop of Omaha, succeeding the late Most Rev. james H. Ryan. During the interim between the death of Archbishop Ryan and the installation of Archbishop Bergan, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Nicholas H. Wegner, then Chancellor of the Archdiocese, and now director of Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, was administrator of the Arch- diocese of Omaha.