Alerding V
Alerding may refer to: * Herman Joseph Alerding, Roman Catholic Bishop of Fort Wayne * ''Alerding v. Ohio High School Athletic Association ''Alerding v. Ohio High School Athletic Association'', 779 F.2d 315 (6th Cir. 1985) was a court case heard before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which held that the right to participate in interscholastic sports is not a ...

Herman Joseph Alerding
Herman Joseph Alerding (April 13, 1845 – December 6, 1924) was a German-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne in Indiana from 1900 until his death in 1924. Biography Early life Herman Alerding was born on April 13, 1845, in Kingdom of Westphalia (in what is today Germany). After his birth, the family immigrated to the United States, settling in Newport, Kentucky. He attended the parochial school of Corpus Christi Parish. Alerding decided to become a priest, but Bishop George Carrell, the prelate for the local Diocese of Covington, refused to send him to seminary. Carrell did not want to pay Alerding's seminary tuition. However, in 1858, Bishop Jacques-Maurice De Saint Palais of the nearby Diocese of Vincennes sponsored Alerding at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary near Vincennes. When St. Charles closed in 1859, Alerding transferred to St. Thomas Seminary in Bardstown, Kentucky. He returned to Indiana in 1860 an ...
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