Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara

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GERALD PATRICK ALOYSIUS O'HARA

Born : 4 May 1895
Deceased : 16 July 1963

Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, 1929-1935
Bishop of Savannah, 1935-1937
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, 1937-1959
Archbishop ad personam 1950

Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia	Bishop of Savannah
Archbishop of Savannah-Atlanta

Official blazon

(* archbishop) Vert, on a pale indented or, a lion rampant sable, on a chief of the second a cross throughout gules charged with a mullet of six points of the second.
Motto: Vitam impendere Christo

Origin/meaning

As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop.

The black lion on gold between flamed green bordure is the family arms of the Irish O Hara family. We have no information on the meaning of the star.

The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop by instruction of the Holy See, of March 1969, confirmed in March 2001.

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