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    John Baptist Purcell (February 26, 1800 – July 4, 1883) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Cincinnati from 1833 to...
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  • politician John Purcell (physician) (1674?–1730), English physician John Baptist Purcell (1800–1883), Irish-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church...
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    honor of the first Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, John Baptist Purcell. Purcell High School was under the administration of the Brothers of...
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    (Spiritans) Edward Fenwick (1822–1832) John Baptist Purcell (1833–1850), elevated to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell (1850–1883) William Henry Elder (1883–1903;...
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    May 20, 1841, under the direction of then-bishop—later archbishop—John Baptist Purcell, and the church was formally dedicated on November 2, 1845, as the...
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    and Christianity; in January 1837, with Archbishop of Cincinnati, John Baptist Purcell on Protestantism and Roman Catholicism; in September 1843, he defended...
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    priest for the Missionaries of the Precious Blood by Archbishop John Baptist Purcell on September 4, 1859. He had received a papal dispensation to receive...
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    Bank of Cincinnati. Wood also developed a friendship with Bishop John Baptist Purcell, who later baptized him into the Catholic Church on April 7, 1836...
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    obtained permission to answer the call for missionaries of Bishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio. From 1839 to 1847 he served as the primary...
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    appointed coadjutor archbishop with the right of succession, to Archbishop John Purcell, for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Elder automatically succeeded on...
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    Le Cendre until 1839, when he accepted the invitation of Bishop John Baptist Purcell to join the Diocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States. He...
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    his classmates included three future archbishops: John McCloskey, John Baptist Purcell, and John Hughes. He wrote several works in prose and verse, and...
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    arrived in Cincinnati in 1844. They had been recruited by Archbishop John Baptist Purcell to serve German-speaking Catholics in the Over-the-Rhine area. In...
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    October 2, 1851, a new seminary building was dedicated by Archbishop John Baptist Purcell in Price Hill, Cincinnati and the seminary was renamed Mount St....
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    priest from Switzerland. Invited to the United States by Bishop John Baptist Purcell of Cincinnati, Brunner and his fellow Missionaries of the Precious...
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    Maryland. Fitzgerald was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop John Baptist Purcell on August 22, 1857. His first and only assignment was pastor of St...
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    Sisters of Mercy came to Cincinnati at the invitation of Archbishop John Baptist Purcell. They soon opened a Night School for Young Women. Mercy Hospital...
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  • contract bridge player and teacher David Philipson – Reform rabbi John Baptist Purcell – long-serving Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincinnati George Remus –...
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    Cincinnati by John Baptist Purcell, and sent to Mount St. Mary's University for studies. On August 30, 1852, he was ordained a priest by bishop Purcell. Quinlan's...
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    teacher to his students. Juncker was ordained a priest by Bishop John Baptist Purcell on March 16, 1834. After his ordination, Juncker was sent to Columbus...
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    Xavier by Bishop Edward Fenwick on October 17, 1831. Upon Bishop John Baptist Purcell's request, the Society of Jesus took control of The Athenaeum in 1840...
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    1982), former League of Ireland and NIFL Premiership footballer John Baptist Purcell (1800–1883), Bishop of Cincinnati from 1833 to his death. Richard...
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    of St. John the Baptist in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador is the metropolitan cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland...
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    nothing against slavery. One outspoken critic of slavery, Archbishop John Baptist Purcell of Cincinnati, Ohio, wrote: When the slave power predominates, religion...
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    1853, in Cincinnati at Saint Peter in Chains Cathedral by Archbishop John Purcell. He was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte...
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    a new mission in the U.S. However, it was only after Archbishop John Baptist Purcell repeatedly asked between 1847 and 1851 for personnel to staff a seminary...
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    critic of slavery was Archbishop John Baptist Purcell of Cincinnati, Ohio. In an 1863 Catholic Telegraph editorial, Purcell wrote: "When the slave power predominates...
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    off 1804, accompanied by Friar Robert Angier. He was received by Bishop John Carroll, who suggested that Fenwick and the Dominicans who accompanied him...
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  • was founded at West Eight Street & Enright Avenue, in 1843 by Rev. John Baptist Purcell, for English speaking Catholics. The new cemetery was created in...
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  • John Baptist Purcell of the Cincinnati diocese, sent Meyer to Emmanuel parish in Dayton to tend to the sick. In Dayton, Meyer met local farmer John Stuart...
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