biography
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Walsh, James A(nthony)
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| lived:
| (1867–1936)
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| biography:
| Catholic prelate, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Ordained in 1892, he co-founded the Catholic Mission Bureau (1906) to support foreign missions and, with Father Thomas Price, won approval for a seminary for missionaries (1911). He was the first superior of the new Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll), which dispatched its first missionaries in 1918. He was consecrated a bishop in 1933. |
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