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Author: Will T. Hale

   RIGHT REV. THOMAS SEBASTIAN BYRNE. The present bishop of the diocese of

Nashville was consecrated to office on the 10th of May, 1894. In the succeeding

period of nearly twenty years Bishop Byrne has been not only the spiritual and

business head of a large organization of church and charitable institutions, but

has also from the fruits of his scholarship been a constant contributor to the

literature of the church at large. Bishop Byrne is a scholar and writer of

exceptional ability, and his name is permanently associated with Catholic letters.



   He was born at Hamilton, Ohio, July 29, 1841, a son of Eugene and Mary Anne

(Reynolds) Byrne, and his training was early directed to prepare him for service

in the church. He was a student in the preparatory seminary of St. Thomas at

Bardstown, Kentucky, and was graduated from St. Marys of the West in 1865. Later

he spent three years in the American College at Rome, and in 1887 Pope Leo XIII

conferred upon him the degree of D. D. Ordained to the priesthood in 1869, he

devoted his time to literature and teaching in the St. Mary's Seminary, and

later had charge of the cathedral at Cincinnati. With the reopening of the

seminary of St. Mary's, he became its rector, and from that office was elevated

to bishop of the Nashville diocese. His practical work in strengthening the

organization of the churches and extending the educational and benevolent work

in this diocese makes a record too long for recital here. One of the conspicuous

results has been the erection, in 1912, of the magnificent cathedral at Nashville.



   Bishop Byrne has translated, in collaboration with Very Rev. Dr. Pabisch, the

Church History of Dr. Alzog's, three volumes, during 1874-78; Jesus Living in

the Priest, from the Italian, in 1901; Abridgement of the Christian Doctrine,

prescribed by Pope Pius X, in 1905; also Homilies for Every Sunday in the Year,

six volumes; Common of the Saints, four volumes; Christian Mysteries, two

volumes, from the Italian of Right Rev. Geremia Bonomelli, Bishop of Cremona.

Bishop Byrne is author of "Man from a Catholic Point of View," read at the

Parliament of Religions in 1903, and of other pamphlets, chiefly of religious

nature. The bishop's residence in Nashville is at 2001 West End avenue.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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