[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 13, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H463]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                WELCOMING ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS JOHN QUINN

  The SPEAKER. Without objection, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. 
Eshoo) is recognized for 1 minute.
  There was no objection.
  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, it is a great privilege to welcome Archbishop 
John Quinn to the House of Representatives and to thank him for 
offering the opening prayer today.
  Archbishop Quinn is one of the preeminent spiritual leaders and 
theologians of our Nation. His church service spans over four decades, 
beginning with his ordination in Rome in 1953. He has served as a 
pastor, as an educator, as Provost of the University of San Diego 
College for Men, as Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego, as Bishop of 
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, as the first Archbishop of Oklahoma City; and 
in 1977, he was named the sixth Archbishop of San Francisco.
  His fellow bishops elected him President of the National Conference 
of Catholic Bishops in 1977, where he led with great distinction for a 
3-year term. In December 1995, after 18 years of ``tending his flock'' 
of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, he resigned and was given a 
visiting fellowship at Campion Hall, Oxford.
  My colleagues, our country has been blessed by the great patriotism, 
wisdom, scholarship, deep spirituality, and inspirational leadership of 
this humble and holy man.
  Thank you, Archbishop Quinn, for gracing the House of Representatives 
with your prayer and your presence and for strengthening our country 
with a faith that calls each of us to be instruments of peace and 
justice.

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