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James Cardinal Gibbons
Jefferson

The men of Division II name their division after James Cardinal Gibbons the renowned Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland. Gibbons was a pastor and Civil War chaplain before becoming secretary to the archbishop of Baltimore (1865), bishop and apostolic vicar of North Carolina (1868), and bishop of Richmond (1872); in 1877 he was named archbishop of Baltimore, becoming a cardinal in 1886. For several crucial decades he was the preeminent leader of American Catholicism. He presided over a national church council that established Catholic University (1884), and he became the university's first chancellor. A prudent leader as archbishop, he discouraged ethnically separate parishes, circumvented church condemnation of the Knights of Labor, and acted as an interpreter between the Vatican and American Catholicism. In 1911 two U.S. presidents joined in observing the 50th anniversary of his ordination. His writings included The Faith of Our Fathers (1876), a simple exposition of beliefs, which became a Catholic best-seller.

Division II comprises all members who live in Jefferson Parish and the outlying suburbs of New Orleans

Division II Officers

Richard F. Burke, Jr. President

Gary McCarthy
Vice -President

Robert McMahon
 Recording Secretary

Dennis Quin 
Financial Secretary

Marc Doherty
Treasurer

James Rafferty
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Chaplain

Hon. Arthur Kingsmill
 Historian

William P. Power
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