Bishop Emmett M. Walsh, bishop of Youngstown, Ohio, and former Georgia priest observed the Golden Jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood Saturday, January 15.

Fifty years ago Bishop Walsh was ordained a priest by the late Bishop Benjamin Kelley in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah.

Born March 6, 1892 in Beaufort, S.C., Bishop Walsh was the eighth of eleven children of Wilhelmina Jennerman Walsh, a native New Yorker and Thomas F. Walsh of Charleston.

Following his ordination, Father Walsh was assigned as an assistant pastor at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, mother church of Atlanta.

After other assignments he returned to Immaculate Conception in 1922 as first administrator and later as pastor. He remained there until his appointment by Pope Pius XI as the sixth bishop of the 107-year-old diocese of Charleston which embraces all of South Carolina.

Over the 22 years the people of the Charleston diocese never lost their enthusiasm for Bishop Walsh. Their support was his and with it he built 25 churches and four hospitals.

In September 1949, Bishop Walsh was named coadjutor bishop to Bishop James McFadden of Youngstown, Ohio and when Bishop McFadden died in 1952 he became Bishop of Youngstown.