[2] After graduating from St. Xavier College in Cincinnati, Urban Vehr studied theology at Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West in the same city.

[1] Vehr was sent to Rome to study at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, receiving a Licentiate of Canon Law in 1928.

[2] Vehr cooperated with the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, asking priests to celebrate mass at the two dozen Civilian Conservation Corps camps established in Colorado.

[3][4] He was installed on January 6, 1942; one attendee was Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini (the future Pope Paul VI), who stayed in Vehr's residence.

[2] In 1965, Vehr launched the Archdiocesan Development Program to accommodate Colorado's Catholic population, which had tripled in size since his arrival in 1931.

[2] Due to poor health, Vehr did not attend the Second Vatican Council sessions in Rome (1962–1965), but sent Auxiliary Bishop David Maloney instead.