Joseph Aloysius Durick (October 13, 1914 - June 26, 1994) was a U.S. Roman Catholic bishop and civil rights advocate. October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

Born in Dayton, Tennessee, he grew up in Bessemer, Alabama, studied at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, and was ordained in Rome. Dayton is a city located in Rhea County, Tennessee. ... Bessemer is a city located in Jefferson County, Alabama. ... Chartered in 1805, St. ... This article is about the city in the US state of Maryland. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000...

On December 30, 1954, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Mobile-Birmingham, Alabama, and titular bishop of Cerbali. At age 40 he was one of the youngest bishops in the U.S. On December 11, 1963, he was appointed coadjutor bishop of Nashville, Tennessee; he succeeded as bishop on September 10, 1969, and resigned April 2, 1975. An auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church, is an additional bishop assigned to a diocese because the diocesan bishop is unable to perform his functions, the diocese is so extensive that it requires more than one bishop to administer, or the diocese is attached to a royal or imperial... When first appointed auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Honolulu in Hawaii, Joseph Anthony Ferrario became a titular bishop of the ancient Egyptian city of Cusae. ... Archbishop Jerome Hanus of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa. ... The Nashville skyline Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee. ...

Originally a conformist cleric, he and some colleagues called on Martin Luther King and "outsiders" during the Birmingham protests of 1963 to stop and let the courts work toward integration. King responded with a letter from jail, voicing disappointment in the white clergy, who should be "among our strongest allies". This, and the message he got from Vatican II, led Durick to become a strong voice for civil rights in the segregated South, for which he was called a heretic and a communist by his tradition-bound congregation. In 1968-69 especially he faced serious opposition, taking the form of boycotts of his public appearances. Martin Luther King, Jr. ... The Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. ...

He died in Bessemer.