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Bishop Eugene O'Connell - Pioneer Bishop of Grass Valley (April 1, 1976) (4 pages)

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In 1875, Bishop O’Connell was 60 years old, a remarkable age for those days. He now began to speak about getting old and needing a coadjutor. He always found that no one either in Rome or in Paris, which sent him the support he needed for the diocese, fully understood the vastness of the territory of the Grass Valley Diocese. One time he tried to describe it by saying that it exceeded England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales by 77,000 square miles. Another time Father Manogue compared it to the Empire of France which was only 7,800 Square Miles bigger. As a result of the size, now 22 parishes to be visited regularly, he began to agitate for a coadjutor bishop to help him. Rome made two attempts to appoint a coadjutor bishop in 1875, and again in 1877, but both appointees refused to be made bishop. After these two refusals it would take Rome four years before a coadjutor bishop would be found who would accept. +Bishop Eugene O’Connell, Founding Bishop of the Diocese of Grass Valley March 3, 1868 Meanwhile, Bishop O’Connell continued to carry on alone. On September 24, 1873, he had the joy of a second ordination in the Marysville cathedral in the person of Father Michael Walrath.