Mooney, Edward Aloysius (1882-1958), was named a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Pius XII in 1946. Mooney was the first archbishop of Detroit.
Mooney was born in Mount Savage, Maryland, on May 9, 1882. In 1909, he was ordained a priest after completing studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He then served in the Diocese of Cleveland until 1922, when he returned to the Pontifical North American College as spiritual director. In 1926, he was ordained bishop. He served as apostolic delegate to India until 1931, then to Japan until 1933. He returned to the United States in 1933 as bishop of Rochester, New York. In 1937, he was transferred to Detroit, where he managed an extensive building program and supervised the archdiocese’s recovery from the Great Depression. Mooney was a strong supporter of labor unions and served on the executive board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. He died on Oct. 25, 1958.
