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

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asked Bishop O’Connell to come and take his place during the months he would be away in Europe. Thus in June, 1886 Bishop O’Connell moved to Los Angeles to help out. Meanwhile word had come from Rome in 1886 that Bishop Manogue’s request was to be granted. There would be a boundary change between the San Francisco and Grass Valley Dioceses and the City of Sacramento would be transferred from San Francisco and would be the new See City. Thus the old Grass Valley Diocese survived two and a half years from the resignation of its founding bishop. Bishop Manogue was now the first Bishop of Sacramento. Bishop O’Connell continued to live a vigorous life in Los Angeles until suddenly a bout with pneumonia snuffed out his life on December 4, 1891 at the advanced age (for those times) of 76. He lies buried in the priests plot in Calvary Cemetery under a simple marker which says “Rt Rev Eugene O’Connell 1815-1891.” There is no way to know that one is walking on top of the grave of a bishop, much less that of California’s pioneer Bishop of Northern California and Nevada. Since the writing of this article in 1976, Bishop O’Connell’s body was returned to Sacramento at the request of Bishop Francis Quinn. A Mass and reburial of Bishop O’Connell took place on Memorial Day, May 31, 1982, at St Mary Cemetery, Sacramento. His body was buried in a simple marble vault in the Bishops’ Crypt at St Mary Mausoleum.