Raymond Philip Etteldorf

The Most Reverend Raymond P. Etteldorf
Church	Catholic Church
See	Titular See of Tyndaris
Appointed	December 21, 1968
In office	January 6, 1969 – March 15, 1986
Orders
Ordination	December 8, 1937
Consecration	January 6, 1969 by Pope Paul VI
Personal details
Born	(1911-08-18)August 18, 1911 Ossian, Iowa
Died	March 15, 1986(1986-03-15) (aged 74)

Raymond Philip Etteldorf (August 18, 1911 – March 15, 1986) was an Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Etteldorf was born in the Winneshiek County, Iowa community of Ossian. His grandfather Philipp Etteldorf (1827-1916) was a German immigrant from the village Schwarzenborn in the Eifel region. Bishop Etteldorf was a first cousin of the distinguished pediatrician James N. Etteldorf (1909-1997). Raymond Etteldorf was ordained as a priest of the Archdiocese of Dubuque on December 8, 1937.

During his early career, he held various assignments in the Archdiocese of Dubuque. One of his assignments was at Saint Joseph's Prairie Church in Washington Township, about ten miles south of Dubuque. He served as the Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See from 1967 to 1968.

On December 21, 1968, Etteldorf was named the Titular Archbbishop of Tyndaris, and appointed as the Apostolic Delegate to New Zealand and Pacific Islands.^[1] Ettledorf was consecrated on January 6, 1969, by Pope Paul VI. Archbishops Sergio Pignedoli, the Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and Ernesto Civardi, the Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation, acted as co-consecrators.^[2]

Etteldorf was named Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Ethiopia on June 21, 1974.^[3]

In October 1982 he was assigned to the Secretariat of State in Rome.^[4] On May 27, 1983, he was named a consultor of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.^[5] and on 3 October a consultor of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.^[6]

He resigned on December 27, 1984.

Etteldorf died on March 15, 1986. He was buried in the mortuary chapel of St. Raphael's Cathedral in Dubuque, Iowa.^[7]

Notes

^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LX. 1968. p. 816. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
^ "Raymond Philip Etteldorf".
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXVI. 1974. p. 365. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
^ "Archbishop Raymond Philip Etteldorf [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXV. 1983. p. 594. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXV. 1983. p. 1016. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
^ "Rev. Raymond P. Etteldorf". Find-A-Grave. Retrieved 2014-03-12.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque

Ordinaries

Bishops: Mathias Loras; Clement Smyth

Archbishops: John Hennessy; John Keane; James Keane; Francis Beckman; Henry Rohlman; Leo Binz; James Byrne; Daniel Kucera; Jerome Hanus; Michael Jackels; Thomas Robert Zinkula

Auxiliary bishops

Churches

Cathedral: St. Raphael's Cathedral, Dubuque

Parishes: Basilica of St. Francis Xavier, Dyersville; St. John XXIII, Cedar Rapids; Holy Ghost, Dubuque; Holy Trinity, Luxemburg; Sacred Heart, Dubuque; Sacred Heart, Fillmore; St. Boniface, New Vienna; St. Donatus, St. Donatus; St. Joseph, Elkader; St. Joseph, Key West; Saint Joseph the Worker, Dubuque; St. Martin, Cascade; St. Mary, Guttenberg; St. Patrick, Dubuque; St. Patrick, Garryowen; St. Lawrence, Otter Creek; St. Paul, Worthington; Saints Peter and Paul, Petersburg