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Show High Churchmen Leave After Installing Bishop New Prelate and Predecessor Honored by Knights of Columbus As visiting Catholic churchmen were leaving Salt Lake City Friday after attending one of the most important ceremonies in the churchy-consecration and installation of a new bishop in the Cathedral Ca-thedral of the Madeleine Thursday, the new prelate, the Most Rev. Duane G. Hunt, D. D., began his duties as bishop of the Salt Lake diocese. Meanwhile, the Most Rev. James E. Karney, D. D., who has been bishop of the Salt Lake diocese for the last five years, was making preparations to leave next Monday I for Rochester. N. Y., to take charge of his new diocese. Bishop Kearney said he will be installed in-stalled in his new ses November 11. He already has bade farewell to V most of his membership at different differ-ent parishes and those at Catholic institutions in the diocese. Bishop Hunt will celebrate hii first pontifical maaa 8unday at 11:K a, m. in the Cathedral of the Made' leine. Bishop Kesrney will say his last (Continue, on KlgSt I IColuma Tnr PRELATE BEGINS I BISHOPRIES (Continues fro Fas One! I mass privately In the cathedral Sunday Sun-day at 6 a. m. He said in tha Rochester Roch-ester diocese there are 22.1,000 mem- I bers, compared to 10.000 in the Halt Lake dux tee. tBahop Kearney will direct 12 parishes and 3ov priests. Coming here July 4, 1932, Bishop Kearney was Installed in tha cathe-1 dral tha followng Thanksgiving day. ' One of hla outstanding achievements achieve-ments during his period here waa . the lifting of the $90 000 debt on the Cathedral of the Madeleine so It could ba consecrated, November 2s, lv.KI. Both Bishop Kearney and Bishop ' Hunt were honored at a banquet' Thursday night In the Hotel Utah, attended by Catholic clerejy and laity and high secular officials. The function waa under the auspices of tha atata council, Knlghu of Co-! lumbua, , Governor Speaks i Speakers ware the two bishops, Governor Henry H Blood, the Most Rev, John J, Mitty, li. IX, archbishop arch-bishop of San Francisco, and Harold M. Stephens, juatlcs of the circuit court of appeals in Washington, D. C, and an old friend of tha new biahop, who apoke In behalf of Catholic Cath-olic laymen. Extending good wishes to Biahop Kearney In hla new see, Governor Blood said ha joined with members ' of the Catholic church In their re-grrt re-grrt at seeing him leave Salt Lake City. He paid tribute to Biahop Hunt and said he waa pleased that; one of Utah'a own cittieru bad been j appointed to aucceed Bishop' Kearney. Judge Stephens spoke of hia long! friendship with Bishop Hunt, which, he said, began when they were both 1 instructors at tha Univeralty of Utah. Ha pointed out tha new bishop could hava had a notable career either in law or teaching. Thanks 8. L. Frlrnde "When you hava to say goodbye," said Bishop Kearney, who made his last public appearance here, "tha easiest thing to do ia does tha door and run. My five years hero have been very happy years and you hava hads them so; they hava been encouraging en-couraging years and consoling years, and you hava made them so." Ha aald that ha would return to Salt Lake City for visits whenever tha opportunity aroaa. Biahop Hunt thanked Archbishop Mitty and Biahop Kearney, third and fourth titular heads of tha Salt Lake dioceae, for tha work they did to get tha dioceae out of debt. He expressed thanks to Patrick Cardinal Cardi-nal Hayes, to tha Extenaion society, Society for tha Propagation of the Kalth and to the Knights of Columbus. Colum-bus. Pays Tributes After psylng tribute to several old friends, he Introduced among them Edward A. Sager of Waverly, a member of the Iowa aupreme couatr Father H. M.hea, pastor of St. Matthew's church In Chicago, who baptlaed the new biahop Into tha Catholic faith, and Father Joseph Jo-seph Sullivan of tha Mariat order. When ha Introduced his father, A. D. Hunt of Wyoming, Iowa, who Is a staunch Methodist, tha antira audience accorded him honor by standing with him and applauding. I'leada for Hoapltal Bishop Hunt urged members of the diocese to give tha Slaters of the Holy Croas their assistance In the construction of a nurses' horns at the Holy Cross hospital Archbishop Mitty joined with Bishop Hunt in tha plea for cooperation cooper-ation of tha people with the sisters In their building project. Ha told of tha sacrifices of tha sisters during dur-ing their years In tha dioceae. He mentioned particularly Slater Mary Mercedes, who haa been hero AS years and who Is ill at tha present time at the Holy Crosa hospital. Banquet chairman was Harvey F. Cahlll, state deputy, Knights of Columbus, Co-lumbus, and tha toastmaater was Richard J. Hogan, a local attorney. |