In the years 1975-76, Catholics attending Mass anywhere in the state of Montana would have heard the priest pray for “Paul, our Pope, and Eldon, our Bishop.” Apart from the fact that outside of Montana there has never been a Catholic bishop in the United States named Eldon, there was nothing surprising about this.
What was surprising, as the traveler moved from town to town, was the discovery that there are in fact two dioceses in the state of Montana and that at the time both of them had bishops named Eldon. To be precise, Eldon Schuster was bishop of Great Falls, Elden Curtiss bishop of Helena. (Bishop Schuster retired in 1977.)
