He was famous for recruiting and ordaining 80 priestsA newly arrived priest from Madras, India to Fargo in 1997, the Rev. Thaines Arulandu formed a quick impression of his new boss, Bishop James Sullivan.
"He came out and carried my suitcase in," said Arulandu, pastor of St. Stephen's parish in Larimore, N.D. "I was very much taken up by that. You don't see that very often from those who hold hierarchical power. He was a very humble man, a spiritual man, a simple man. He loved his priests and was a brother and a father and a friend." [snip] Grand Forks Herald
Catholic News Service obituary on Bishop Sullivan
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