Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Lyons ya kasance a Kwalejin Boston na ɗan gajeren lokaci, kafin a nada shi shugaban Kwalejin Gonzaga. Ya ɗauki matsayin a ranar 27 ga Disamba, 1908, ya gaji Joseph J. Himmel. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan ya hau mulki,
girgizar kasa ta afkawa Messina, Italiya, kuma makarantar ta gabatar da babban taro na babban taro don wadanda suka mutu, wanda Bishop Diomede Falconio ya yi, kuma Bonaventura Cerretti ya rera. A wajen akwai Bishop Denis J. O'Connell, Babban Lauyan Charles Joseph Bonaparte, jakadan Italiya a Amirka, Joseph Himmel, da kuma firistoci daga Dominican, Franciscan, da kuma Paulist. An gudanar da liyafa don girmama sabon shugaban a ranar 10 ga Fabrairu, wanda dan majalisa William Bourke Cockran ya halarta. Lokacin Lyons ya ƙare a ranar 8 ga Yuli, 1909, lokacin da Eugene DeL ya gaje shi. McDonnell. - Ta yaya kuka sani?