biography
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Purcell, John (Baptist)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1800–83)
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| biography:
| Catholic prelate, born in Mallow, Ireland. As bishop (from 1833) and archbishop (from 1850) of Cincinnati, he presided over a period of tremendous growth. A temperance advocate and opponent of ethnic parishes, he resigned because of an 1879 diocesan financial scandal, in which he, however, was not implicated. |
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