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Show NEW YORK'S NEW BISHOP bishop of the Roman Catholic arch-diocese arch-diocese of New York, has the dis-t dis-t notion of beinc one of the last two t shops appoint by Pope plug 1 other being Mgr. Thomas J. Shahan! rector of the Catholic university a Washington. Bishop Hayes, who is , forty-seven years old, is one of the youngest of the American hierarchy. Furthermore, he has never been a Pastor, having been busy in official Positions during his 22 years of service serv-ice as a priest. He was consecrated, with imposing ceremonial, as titular bishop of Tagaste, a diocese in Africa Where St. Augustine was born. Mgr. Hayes holds the joint positions posi-tions of chancellor of the diocese and president of Cathedral" college, his office of-fice being in the basement of the college, col-lege, Madison avenue and Fifty-first street. He resides with Cardinal Farley Far-ley in the archiepiscopal residence, 152 Madison avenue. He is ever readv lo assist tne cardinal with all his duties and is never too busy to helD a. brother priest. " When Mgr. Hayes sleeps is not known. If one of the clergy has to go to the hospital suddenly, before he is settled in his room there is a soft rap t the door, and in walks "the little chancellor." When death takes away a mother, an only sister or a favorite nieco or nephew of a fellow priest a gentle gen-tle hand grasps his and a voice as tender as a woman's whispers in the ear, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord," and "He giveth his beloved Bleep." This is Mgr. Hayes. |