Philadelphia's O'Hara

Since the death of Dennis Cardinal Dougherty last May, the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia has been without an archbishop. Last week Pope Pius appointed an outstanding one: John Francis O'Hara, 63, bishop of Buffalo, onetime (1934-39) president of the University of Notre Dame, and during World War II one of his church's directors of Roman Catholic Army & Navy chaplains. Vatican speculation immediately listed Archbishop O'Hara/- as among those U.S. prelates most likely to be raised to the college of cardinals at the next consistory (probably next spring). Other U.S. archbishops often so listed: Boston's Richard James Gushing, San Francisco's John Joseph Mitty and St. Louis' Joseph E. Ritter.

/- In a notable week for the O'Haras, the Pope also named Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara, 56 (no kin), bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, to be papal nuncio to Ireland. Archbishop O'Hara has been a nuncio before, in Rumania, from which he was expelled by the Communists in 1950.

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