biography
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Healy, James Augustine
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1830–1900)
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| biography:
| Catholic prelate, born in Jones Co, Georgia, USA. The son of a black slave woman and white plantation owner, he graduated from Holy Cross College (1849) and was ordained in Paris (1854). After serving as a pastor and administrator in the Boston archdiocese, he was named Bishop of Portland, ME (1875). The nation's first African-American Catholic bishop, though not widely known as such, he was an effective orator, builder of churches, and benefactor of the needy. |
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