Wisconsin Bishop Wycislo dead at 97; he attended Vatican II

Published: 2005-10-12

GREEN BAY, Wis. (CNS) -- Retired Bishop Aloysius J. Wycislo of Green Bay, at age 97 the oldest Catholic bishop in the United States, died Oct. 11 following hospitalization for double pneumonia. He had been one of a handful of remaining U.S. bishops who attended all sessions of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. He was to be entombed at Allouez Catholic Mausoleum Chapel in Green Bay following his funeral Mass Oct. 15 at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Green Bay. Bishop Wycislo was a bishop since 1960 and headed the Green Bay Diocese from 1968 until his retirement in 1983. Earlier, as field director of Catholic relief efforts during and after World War II, he directed a staff that resettled hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and established 262 welfare centers in 23 countries in Europe and the Near East.

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