Philip George Scher

Philip George Scher (February 22, 1880 – January 3, 1953) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.

[1] He received his early education at the parochial school of St. Peter's Church in his native city.

[1] He continued his studies at the Propaganda College in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Pietro Respighi on June 6, 1903.

[1] Scher then went to California due to ill health and was incardinated into the Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles in October 1904.

[2] After suffering a stroke in 1946, he was confined to a hospital in Fresno, and received Aloysius Joseph Willinger as his coadjutor bishop.