In the heady days after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, Archbishop Quinn emerged as one of the church's bright young talents, an eloquent speaker not only on doctrine and the church hierarchy, but also on such urgent political matters as nuclear policy and social justice movements abroad.
At 38, he became the youngest bishop in the United States when Pope Paul VI appointed him auxiliary bishop of San Diego. After serving as the bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa in 1971, he became the first archbishop of Oklahoma City the next year, when the diocese was divided in two. In that office he spoke out against the death penalty and criticized extremists in the anti-abortion movement.
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