Negro Bishop Consecrated
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 7.
The son of a Louisiana Negro rice mill labourer was yesterday consecrated as a Roman Catholic Bishop. He is Harold Robert Perry, aged 49, and is the first fullblooded Negro to achieve this distinction in the United States. He is now Auxiliary to Archbishop Phillip Hannan of New Orleans.
As the new bishop emerged from the historic basilica of St Louis, the oldest cathedral in the nation, a Negro priest shouted: “This is a great day. It was a long time coming, but it is a great day.”
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30954, 10 January 1966, Page 8
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