'MESSMER; Sebastian Gebhard, Cadx:a. archbishop of Milwaukee: b. Goldadi, Carlini Saint Gall, Switzerland, 29 Aug. 1847. Havine passed the eight grades of the common of his home village, he spent three years at the high school in the neighboring town c.: Rorschach on the Lake of Constance. In I. he went to the ecclesiastical preparatory c,-, lege of Saint George's near the city of Gall, where he finished his classical mulct In 1866 he proceeded to the University of lnre bruck in Tirol to study philosophy and theoicci and there was 'ordained to the priesthood, 5 July 1871. In October of the same year came to Seton Hall College, the diocesan <-_.- inary of Newark, N. J., where he taught Ilr ous theological branches until 1889, when was called to the chair of canon law at /lc pewly-founded Catholic University at W'ai ington. Before going there he spent the wintr. of 1889 at Rome, where he attended the lec of the present Cardinal Giustini Go lie Justinian or Roman Law, and in June 1..g
took the degree of doctor of canon law in :I.! Collegio Appollinare. In November 1891 Messmer was by the Holy See appoinw. bishop of Green Bay, Wis. He was CYL 4 crated bishop on 27 March 1892, by his life-k. friend, Bishop Zardetti, of Saint Cloud, Mini: later Archbishop of Bucharest in Rnmar:.: After the death of Archbishop Katzer of Mt waukee in 1903 Bishop Messmer was appona: Archbishop of Milwaukee where he was z stalled on 10 Feb. 1904. Dr. Messmer has hie a constant contributor of articles to retie ecclesiastical periodicals, and has edited a nu: ber of smaller works on canon law, liturgy and the Bible; also the 'Works Bishop • England (7 vols.). With Bisle McFaul of Trenton, N. J., Dr. Messmer, eta Bishop of Green Bay, became one of the ior., ers of the Catholic Federation of Ameri 1901. Since 1916 he has been honorary prtg dent of the Catholic Hospital Associating , the United States.