Henry Rohlman

Henry Patrick Rohlman was a 20thcentury bishop in the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Davenport from 19271944 and as coadjutor archbishop and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque from 19441954.

Rohlman was born in Appelhuelsen, Westphalia to Bernard and Bernadine Rohlman. When he was two years old his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Carroll County, Iowa. They moved to Arkansas where both of his parents died. Henry was moved to Nebraska where he finished elementary school and worked on a farm. Through the generosity of people from Carroll County he studied in the high school department at St. Lawrence Seminary, Mount Calvary, Wisconsin, and graduated from Columbia College, now Loras College, in Dubuque. He studied for the priesthood at the Grand sminaire de Montral and was ordained a priest by Archbishop Paul Bruchesi in Montreal for the Archdiocese of Dubuque on December 21, 1901.

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