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Sebastian Gebhard Messmer was the son of Sebastian Gebhard and Rosa (Baumgartner) Messmer, was born on August 29, 1847, at Goldach, Switzerland.
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Sebastian Gebhard Messmer was the son of Sebastian Gebhard and Rosa (Baumgartner) Messmer, was born on August 29, 1847, at Goldach, Switzerland.
In 1866, after classical studies at the Seminary of St. George in St. Gall, Messmer commenced to read philosophy and theology at the University of Innsbrück, Austria. In recognition of his ability, in 1885 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in divinity by Pope Leo XIII. At the Collegio Apollinare, Rome, he earned the degree of D. C. L.
Ordained to the priesthood July 23, 1871, Messmer sailed for America in the fall, on the invitation of Bishop Bayley, to take the chair of theology and canon law at Seton Hall College, South Orange, New Jersey. Here, during a professorship of eighteen years, he kept in touch with pastoral ministry, serving the German parish of St. Peter's in Newark for a number of years, St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Newark, for eight years, and St. Leo's Church in Irvington for two. In the meantime, as assistant secretary of the Provincial Council of New York, he published Praxis Synodalis (1883). He was one of a commission of eight theologians who prepared a draft of decrees for consideration by the Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884, acted as secretary of the Council, and in collaboration with Dr. Denis O'Connell edited the published decrees (1886). During the following year, he edited an English translation of a German work by Franz Droste, Canonical Procedure in Disciplinary and Criminal Cases of Clerics (1887), which still remains an authoritative treatment of the subject. When the Catholic University of America was established in Washington he was called to the chair of canon law and assumed his duties after two years of graduate work in Roman civil law at the Collegio Apollinaire, Rome. Two years later, December 14, 1891, he was appointed a bishop of Green Bay in Wisconsin. Consecrated in St. Peter's Church, Newark, by Bishop Otto Zardetti of St. Cloud, March 27, 1892, he served his diocese for ten years, during which a dozen parochial schools were established, as well as four academies, an Indian school, several asylums, and a number of hospitals. On November 28, 1903, he was translated to the prosperous archbishopric of Milwaukee. His interest in the Catholic University continued till the end of his life; he was an active patron and trustee, rarely missing a meeting of the board even in his advanced years. His episcopal burdens did not end his scholarly activities. He edited Spirago's Method of Christian Doctrine (1901), W. Devivier's Christian Apologetics (1903), and the Works of the Right Reverend John England (7 vols. , 1908), and contributed a number of articles to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Ecclesiastical Review, Pastoral Blätt, and Catholic Historical Review. At times, he permitted important diocesan matters to sleep in unanswered letters while he was busy with researches in county courthouses.
Death overtook him in his native Goldach, and here he was buried in his father's grave with religious services by local ecclesiastics, by representatives of the Vatican and Switzerland, and by Cardinal Piffl of Vienna in gratitude for his philanthropies on behalf of the starving Viennese after the war. By his will, which limited the cost of casket and grave marker, he bequeathed a small estate in books and life insurance to his diocese.
Messmer's discreet pro-Germanism prior to 1917 and his loyalty after the United States entered the World War had a deep influence on Germans in America in general and German and Polish Catholics in particular. An active administrator, at least before old age left its mark upon him, he saw his archdiocese advance rapidly, although its extent was curtailed in 1905 when the separate diocese of Superior was created. Forty parochial schools, ten hospitals and sanitariums, and about fifteen additional charitable institutions for dependents were built during his régime; St. Francis Seminary was so developed in equipment and in staff that it attained the first rank as a training school for priests; Marquette University became non-sectarian and one of the most progressive of Jesuit schools; and Mount Mary College for girls was established with a lay chancellor. While this growth cannot be directly ascribed to the archbishop, little could have been done without his active leadership and unstinted patronage. Outside of his diocesan labors, he was a promoter of the American Federation of Catholic Societies, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the Deutsch Rumisch Katholische Centralverein, and after 1925 an honorary president of the Catholic Hospital Association of the United States and Canada. The honors he earned included appointment as an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne (Nov. 16, 1906) and an elaborate religious and civic celebration to mark his golden jubilee (1921). Archbishop Messmer also founded the Catholic Herald in 1922, the official Catholic, non-partisan, English-language paper of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
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Messmer played the German card games of skat and schafskopf for relaxation and to chop wood for exercise. Approachable to priests and people to the extent of being easily imposed upon by place-seekers, he had no desire for luxuries. In traveling he sat bolt-upright in the smoking car, where his powerful physique, full beard, and affability made him a marked man. Racially broad-minded, alive to the problems of his people and his state, sympathetic with labor and trade unionism and with most of the progressive reforms though fearful of woman suffrage and of prohibition, he was a power in Wisconsin.
There is no information about his personal life. Perhaps, he was never married.
