In October 1960, at age 83, Rummel broke an arm and a leg in a fall, after which he nearly died from pneumonia. He also created new lay organizations to support an expansion of the many charity programs within the archdiocese. He streamlined the accounting procedures of the archdiocese. In 1935, Rummel mandated the creation of CCD programs in every parish. Saint Augustine High School in Orleans Parish was built in 1951. This program resulted in the construction of 70 new Catholic schools, including several new high schools. In 1945 he launched the Youth Progress Program, a major initiative to raise money for the expansion of the parochial school system. ĭuring Rummel's episcopacy, 45 new church parishes were created throughout the archdiocese, increasing the number of parishes from 135 to 180. Over the next thirty years, the Catholic population in the archdiocese would double to over 762,000, and the number of students in Catholic schools grew from fewer than 40,000 to over 85,000. Also, recent European immigrants, many of whom were Catholic, were also settling in the city. At the time, New Orleans was rapidly urbanizing as farmers flocked to the city in search of factory jobs. Rummel transferred to New Orleans during the Great Depression. Rummel was named by Pius XI as the ninth archbishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans on March 9, 1935. Patrick's Cathedral in New York by Cardinal Patrick Hayes. He was consecrated on May 29, 1928, at St. Rummel was named the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Omaha by Pope Pius XI on Mar. Rummel returned to New York and served as a parish priest in several parishes around the city for the next 25 years. Rummel was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of New York at the Basilica of St. He graduated from Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire in 1889.

Mary's College, a Redemptorist minor seminary in North East, Pennsylvania. Boniface Parochial School, then went to St. Like many recent German immigrants, the Rummels settled in the Yorkville District of Manhattan in New York City. His family immigrated to the United States when he was six years old. Joseph Rummel was born in the village of Steinmauern in the Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (in what is today Germany), on October 14, 1876. Rummel is best known for excommunicating several Catholics who vocally opposed his racial desegregation of parochial schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Omaha in Nebraska from 1928 to 1935 and as archbishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans from 1935 to 1964.

Joseph Francis Rummel (Octo– November 8, 1964) was a German-born American Catholic prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Bishops consecrated by Joseph Rummel as principal consecrator

His Excellency by Joseph J. Ellis