Edward Aloysius Mooney


Edward Aloysius Mooney was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Detroit from 1937 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946.

Edward Mooney was born in Mount Savage, Maryland as the seventh child of Thomas and Sarah Mooney. At age 5, he moved with his family to Youngstown, Ohio, where his father worked at a tube mill. Following his fathers death in the 1890s, his mother opened a small bakery to support the family, with Edward and his siblings delivering the baked goods to her customers. He attended St. Charles College in Ellicott City and St. Marys Seminary in Baltimore before being sent to Rome in 1905 to study at the Pontifical North American College. He was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Pietro Respighi on April 10, 1909.

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