Bishop Emmett M. Walsh (1927-1949)
Emmet Michael Walsh was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, to Thomas Walsh and Wilhelmina Jannerman Walsh in 1892. Walsh’s family moved to Savannah, Georgia, in 1906. He attended Chatham Academy in Savannah and then St. Bernard’s Seminary in Rochester, New York. Walsh returned to Savannah for his ordination in 1916.
From 1916-1927, Walsh served as assistant at Immaculate Conception Church in Atlanta, Georgia; pastor of St. Teresa Catholic Church in Albany, Georgia; pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Savannah; and then returned to Atlanta to serve as pastor of Immaculate Conception Church. In 1927, Walsh was appointed and ordained as the sixth bishop of Charleston. In 1949, Bishop Walsh was appointed coadjutor bishop of Youngstown, Ohio, and titular bishop of Rhaedestus, Turkey. He succeeded as bishop of Youngstown in 1952. Walsh died in Youngstown in 1968.