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Gibbons, James 1834-
Clergyman; born in Baltimore, Md., July 23, 1834; removed to Ireland with his parents at an early age, and there received his preliminary education, and in 1848 returned with his parents to the United States, settling in New Orleans.
In 1855 he entered St. Charles College, Maryland, and in 1857 was transferred to St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore.
He was ordained a priest June 30, 1861; was made an assistant in
Cardinal Gibbons. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Baltimore; and soon after was appointed pastor of St. Bridget's Church, in Canton, a suburb of Baltimore.
Subsequently he was private secretary to Archbishop Spalding, and chancellor of the diocese.
In October, 1866, he was appointed assistant chancellor to the Second Plenary Council of the American Roman Catholic Church, which met in Baltimore, and in 1868 became vicar-apostolic of North Carolina, with the title of bishop.
On May 20, 1877, he was appointed coadjutor archbishop of Baltimore, and on Oct. 3
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Keane , John Joseph 1839 - (search)
Keane, John Joseph 1839-
Clergyman; born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, Sept. 12, 1839; came to the United States in 1846; was educated in St. Charles's College and St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore; ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in 1866, and assigned to St. Patrick's Church, Washington.
He remained there till Aug. 25, 1878, when he was consecrated Bishop of Richmond, Va. He became rector of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., in 1886, and held that post till 1897, when he resigned at the Pope's request and went to Rome.
He was an associate editor of the revised edition of Johnson's universal Cyclopaedia in 1892-95.
In 1897, having received from Rome a leave of absence for two years, he returned to the United States, and in September, 1900, was appointed Archbishop of Dubuque, to succeed the late Archbishop John Hennessy.