Controversial former Seattle archbishop celebrates 50-year anniversary as bishop

Controversial former Seattle archbishop celebrates 50-year anniversary as bishop

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Fifty years ago, Raymond Hunthausen, a popular Montana priest who was barely 41 and widely known to all his friends and colleagues as "Dutch," was ordained sixth bishop of Helena, Mont. Less than six weeks later, Oct. 11, 1962, he went to Rome as the youngest U.S. bishop at the opening of the Second Vatican Council.