Bishop Grahmann of Dallas celebrates triple jubilee

Published: 2006-07-17

DALLAS (CNS) -- Dallas Bishop Charles V. Grahmann celebrated a triple jubilee the weekend of July 7-8: He marked 25 years as a bishop and 50 years as a priest and celebrated his approaching 75th birthday. About 1,500 people, including family and friends who filled more than a dozen pews at the front of the Cathedral Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, attended a July 7 Mass commemorating the three key events in his life. There was a festive reception after Mass and a jubilee dinner the next day. "I'm grateful to God," said Bishop Grahmann, who turned 75 July 15. "I'm grateful to you. I'm grateful to all of my brothers in the priestly ministry." Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Grahmann an auxiliary bishop of San Antonio in 1981, the first bishop of the new Diocese of Victoria in 1982 and the sixth bishop of Dallas in 1990. The Dallas Diocese, which had fewer than 250,000 Catholics when he first came, now numbers almost a million Catholics in a total population of 3.5 million.

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