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JOHN IRELAND (1838- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 742 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:IRELAND (1838- )  , See also:American See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:prelate, was See also:born at Burnchurch, See also:County See also:Kilkenny, See also:Ireland, on the 11th of See also:September 1838 . In 1849 he was taken to the See also:United States by his parents, who settled at St See also:Paul, See also:Minnesota Territory . After being educated in See also:France for the priesthood, he returned to the United States in 1861; he was ordained at St Paul and in the following See also:year he accompanied the 5th Minnesota Volunteer See also:Infantry See also:south as See also:chaplain . Subsequently he became See also:rector of the See also:cathedral at St Paul, and in 187o-1871 represented See also:Bishop See also:Thomas See also:Langdon See also:Grace (1814-1897) at the Vatican See also:council at See also:Rome . In 1875 he was appointed bishop of See also:Nebraska, but at the urgent See also:request of Bishop Grace the See also:appointment was changed so that he might remain at St Paul as bishop-coadjutor with the right of See also:succession; at the same See also:time he was made titular bishop of Maronea . In 1884 he succeeded to the bishopric, and in 1888 he became the first See also:archbishop of the see . His liberal views gave him a wide See also:influence and reputation both within and without the See also:church, and he came to be looked upon as a See also:leader of the " American " as distinguished from the " Roman " party in the See also:clergy . His views were, however, opposed by several leading Catholics; and several of his administrative acts, notably his See also:plan for the partial taking. over of See also:control of the parochial See also:schools by the See also:local authorities (known from the See also:town in which it was first attempted, " the See also:Faribault plan "), were strenuously attacked . He was prominently identified with the planting of Catholic communities or colonies in the See also:North-See also:West, with the See also:establishment of the Catholic University at See also:Washington,and with the Catholic See also:total See also:abstinence See also:movement . The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Yale University in 1901 . He published The Church and See also:Modern Society (1896) .

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