Francis Augustine Thill

Francis Augustine Thill ( born October 12, 1893 in Dayton, Ohio, USA, † May 21, 1957 ) was an American clergyman and Bishop of Salina.

Life

Francis Augustine Thill received on 28 February 1920, the sacrament of Holy Orders for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

On August 24, 1938, he was named by Pope Pius XI. Bishop of Concordia. The Archbishop of Cincinnati, John Timothy McNicholas OP, gave him on 28 October of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis Joseph Beckman, and the Bishop of Denver, Urban John Vehr.

With the renaming of the Diocese of Concordia, Diocese of Salina on 23 December 1944, Thill was appointed Bishop of Salina.