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2021.28.6.39Description
This is a photograph of Father Andrew Francis Pope. O.P. taken in 1909.
Fr. Pope was born in Ontario, Canada and was schooled in Nebraska until 1904. He then moved to San Francisco where he completed his High School education and worked until he began studies at Benicia, California in 1911. Fr. Pope made his Novitiate in Somerset, Ohio where he made his Solemn Profession on January 14, 1915, and studied for the priesthood at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.
Following ordination which took place on June 12, 1921, Fr. Pope was sent to Ross as the Master of Postulants from 1923 to 1925. Following this assignment, he was Prior and Pastor of Holy Rosary in Portland from 1925 to 1930. From 1930 to 1933, he was Prior and Pastor of St. Dominic's in San Francisco.
Perhaps Fr. Pope's most remembered assignment was as Chaplain of the Newman Club at the University of Washington in Seattle. Fr. Pope served in this capacity in one way or another from 1933, until his death in 1943.
He is buried in St. Dominics Cemetery in Benicia.Collection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection
