Bishop Timothy J. Lyne, one of the oldest Roman Catholic bishops in the United States, had a front-row seat to Chicago history during 70 years as a priest.
Bishop Lyne, 94, died suddenly Wednesday morning in a building named after him, the Bishop Lyne Rectory at Holy Name Cathedral.
He administered the last rites to Mayor Richard J. Daley, was pastor at Holy Name Cathedral, and knew six Chicago cardinals, stretching back to Cardinal Mundelein, who became cardinal in 1915.
He was ordained a priest by Archbishop Samuel Stritch in Chicago in 1943.
Bishop Lyne, the vicar for senior priests, grew up on the West Side and was a son of a police officer. His parents were Irish immigrants from County Kerry.
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