- Charles Victor Grahmann
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Charles Victor Grahmann Bishop Emeritus of Dallas Church Roman Catholic See Dallas In Office 1990 — 2007 Predecessor Thomas A. Tschoepe Successor Kevin Farrell Orders Ordination 1956 Rank RETIRED Personal details Born 15 July 1931
Hallettsville, TexasPrevious post Victoria, San Antonio Charles Victor Grahmann (born 15 July 1931 in Hallettsville, Texas) is the former sixth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas.
Biography
On 17 March 1956 Grahmann was ordained as a priest in San Antonio, Texas. His career as a bishop began when Pope John Paul II appointed him as an Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio on 30 June 1981 with the titular see of Equilium. The Pope appointed him the first Bishop of the newly created Diocese of Victoria, Texas on 13 April 1982.[1] In 1989, Grahmann was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Dallas, Texas, and he became Bishop of Dallas on 14 July 1990.[2]
During his tenure, the scandal of Rudy Kos, a pedophile priest of the Dallas Diocese, came up. Bishop Grahmann and his predecessor were held not to have investigated the allegations against Kos and of trying to cover things up.
On 15 July 2006, his 75th birthday, Grahmann offered the Vatican his letter of resignation as bishops are traditionally invited to do at that age.[3] He continued to serve until 30 April 2007, and his successor, former Washington, D.C. Auxiliary Bishop Kevin Farrell, was installed as the new Bishop on 1 May 2007.[4]
Styles of
Charles Grahmann
Reference style The Most Reverend Spoken style Your Excellency Religious style Bishop Posthumous style none Catholic Church titles Preceded by
Thomas Ambrose TschoepeBishop of Dallas, Texas
1990–2007Succeeded by
Kevin FarrellPreceded by
n/aBishop of Victoria, Texas
1982–1989Succeeded by
David Eugene FellhauerReferences
- ^ "Diocese of Victoria, United States". Giga-Catholic Information. http://www.gcatholic.com/dioceses/diocese/vict1.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ^ "Diocese of Dallas, United States". Giga-Catholic Information. http://www.gcatholic.com/dioceses/diocese/dall0.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ^ "Apostolorum Successores". Chapter IX, para. 225. Congregation for Bishops. 2004. http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cbishops/documents/rc_con_cbishops_doc_20040222_apostolorum-successores_en.html. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ^ "The Sixth Bishop of Dallas". Diocese of Dallas. Archived from the original on 2008-08-01. http://web.archive.org/web/20080801152224/http://www.cathdal.org/default.asp?contentID=13. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
External links
- Diocese of Dallas - Official Website
- Bishop Grahmann Testified draft of a play using his actual testimony from the 1997 liability trial court transcript involving former priest, Rudy Kos.
- Rudy Kos files A website on the Rudy Kos affair.
Categories:- 1931 births
- 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops
- American Roman Catholic bishops
- Living people
- Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of San Antonio
- 20th-century Roman Catholics
- 21st-century Roman Catholics
- American Roman Catholic bishop stubs
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