Charles Pasquale Greco

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Charles Pasquale Greco
Title Bishop of Alexandria in Louisiana
Personal
Born (1894-10-29)29 October 1894
Rodney
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Religion Christian
Nationality American
School St. Joseph Seminary in Covington, Louisiana
Sect Roman Catholic
Education American College at Louvain
Senior posting
Period in office 1946-1973
Consecration February 25, 1947
Predecessor Daniel Francis Desmond
Successor Lawrence Preston Joseph Graves
Ordination July 25, 1918

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Charles Pasquale Greco (October 29, 1894 – January 20, 1987) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Alexandria in Louisiana from 1946 to 1973.

Biography

Charles Greco was born in Rodney in Jefferson County near Natchez, Mississippi, to Frank and Carmela (née Testa) Greco.[1] He attended St. Joseph Seminary in Covington, Louisiana, before studying at the American College at Louvain in Belgium and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.[1] He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop John Shaw on July 25, 1918.[2] He served as vicar general of the Archdiocese of New Orleans and pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church.[1]

On January 15, 1946, Greco was appointed the sixth Bishop of Alexandria by Pope Pius XII.[2] He received his episcopal consecration on the following February 25 from Archbishop Joseph Rummel, with Bishops Richard Oliver Gerow and Thomas Joseph Toolen serving as co-consecrators.[2] During his tenure, he established 33 parishes, over 125 churches and chapels, 100 convents and rectories, and 7 health-care facilities.[3] In 1954, he also founded St. Mary's Residential Training School in Clarks (later relocated in Alexandria) and Holy Angels School for Retarded Children in Shreveport.[3] He attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965. Bishop Greco was also the first Supreme Chaplain of the Roman Catholic men's organization, the Knights of Columbus.

After twenty-seven years as bishop, Greco resigned on May 10, 1973.[2] He later died at the age of ninety-two.

Greco is honored with a statue of himself standing between two children at Sr. Mary's Residential Training School in Alexandria.[4]

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Alexandria in Louisiana
1946—1973
Succeeded by
Lawrence Preston Joseph Graves


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