Lambert Anthony Hoch

[3] He received his episcopal consecration on the following March 25 from Archbishop Amleto Cicognani, with Bishops William O. Brady and Francis Schenk serving as co-consecrators.

[3] During his four-year-long tenure, Hoch worked to promote vocations to the priesthood and religious life; between 1952 and 1960, 29 priests were ordained for the diocese and 13 for Assumption Abbey in Richardton, North Dakota.

[2] Hoch fostered ecumenical relations with other faiths and helped establish the South Dakota Association of Christian Churches.

[3] Lambert Hoch died after a long illness at McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls on June 27, 1990, at age 87.

[2] In 2003, it was revealed that Hoch sent Bruce McArthur, a Diocese of Sioux Falls priest, to treatment twice after accusations of sexually molesting children in 1963 and 1965.