George Albert Hammes

George Albert Hammes was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin from 1960 to 1985.

Hammes was born in St. Joseph, a hamlet in the town of Greenfield, La Crosse County, Wisconsin. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on May 22, 1937 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Crosse. Father Hammes was chancellor under Bishop John Patrick Treacy and taught at Aquinas High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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