The First Bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, Monsignor Charles Edwin Herzig was born in San Antonio, Texas, the grandson of a Lutheran minister, and was ordained to the priesthood on May 31, 1955. Rendering service in the Diocese of San Antonio, at 57 years of age he was appointed by Pope John Paul II the First Bishop of the newly created Diocese of Tyler, Texas. He received his episcopal consecration from Archbishop Patrick Fernández Flores, assisted by Bishop Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe and Archbishop Michael Jarboe Sheehan, on February 24, 1987.
His episcopate lasted only four years, owing to his death at 62 years of age on Saturday, September 7, 1991, in a Tyler hospital of congestive heart failure after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer. Archbishop Flores returned to Tyler as the celebrant for the Mass of Christian Burial at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on September 12, 1991, followed by internment at Rose Hill Cemetery in Tyler.
The Bishop Charles E. Herzig Humanitarian Award, created in his memory, is presented annually by the Bishop of Tyler during the celebration of a Mass in his memory at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
His episcopate lasted only four years, owing to his death at 62 years of age on Saturday, September 7, 1991, in a Tyler hospital of congestive heart failure after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer. Archbishop Flores returned to Tyler as the celebrant for the Mass of Christian Burial at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on September 12, 1991, followed by internment at Rose Hill Cemetery in Tyler.
The Bishop Charles E. Herzig Humanitarian Award, created in his memory, is presented annually by the Bishop of Tyler during the celebration of a Mass in his memory at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
The First Bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, Monsignor Charles Edwin Herzig was born in San Antonio, Texas, the grandson of a Lutheran minister, and was ordained to the priesthood on May 31, 1955. Rendering service in the Diocese of San Antonio, at 57 years of age he was appointed by Pope John Paul II the First Bishop of the newly created Diocese of Tyler, Texas. He received his episcopal consecration from Archbishop Patrick Fernández Flores, assisted by Bishop Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe and Archbishop Michael Jarboe Sheehan, on February 24, 1987.
His episcopate lasted only four years, owing to his death at 62 years of age on Saturday, September 7, 1991, in a Tyler hospital of congestive heart failure after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer. Archbishop Flores returned to Tyler as the celebrant for the Mass of Christian Burial at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on September 12, 1991, followed by internment at Rose Hill Cemetery in Tyler.
The Bishop Charles E. Herzig Humanitarian Award, created in his memory, is presented annually by the Bishop of Tyler during the celebration of a Mass in his memory at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
His episcopate lasted only four years, owing to his death at 62 years of age on Saturday, September 7, 1991, in a Tyler hospital of congestive heart failure after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer. Archbishop Flores returned to Tyler as the celebrant for the Mass of Christian Burial at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on September 12, 1991, followed by internment at Rose Hill Cemetery in Tyler.
The Bishop Charles E. Herzig Humanitarian Award, created in his memory, is presented annually by the Bishop of Tyler during the celebration of a Mass in his memory at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
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