Henry Patrick Rohlman baptized as Bernard Heinrich Rohlmann (March 16, 1876 – September 13, 1957) was a German-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Rohlman was born on March 16, 1876, in Appelhuelsen, Westphalia (present day Germany), to Bernard and Bernadine (Huesmann) Rohlmann.
With financial assistance from the people from Carroll County, Rohlman was able to study in the high school department at St. Lawrence Seminary in Mount Calvary, Wisconsin.
Rohlman engaged in pastoral work in Dubuque [4] before attending The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., with a view to becoming a missionary.
The principal co-consecrators were Bishops Edmond Heelan of Sioux City and Thomas Drumm of Des Moines.
St. Ambrose College started a woman's division in 1934 and continued to support it as it searched for a religious order of women to take it over.
The Congregation of the Humility of Mary at Rohlman's urging established Marycrest College in 1939 from the woman's division of St.
The synod was called to bring the diocese's regulations in line with the Code of Canon Law which had been promulgated in 1917.
[9] Rohlman had the difficult task of leading the diocese through the Great Depression and World War II.
[8] Until Rohlman came to the diocese only five priests had been recognized for their contributions to the church by being given a papal honor, all of them from Bishop Davis.
Beckman had been talked into investing borrowed money in gold mines with the idea that the profits could be used to further an art collection he had established at Columbia College.
While Rohlman was archbishop, Christ the King Chapel was constructed at Loras College, St. Mary's Home for Children was built in Dubuque, and the number of priests in the archdiocese rose from 290 to 345.
On August 3, 1946, Pope Pius XII appointed a Dubuque priest, Edward Fitzgerald, as the first auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese.