William Turner (bishop of Buffalo)

William Turner ( born April 8, 1871 in Kilmallock, County Limerick, Ireland, † July 10, 1936 in Buffalo, USA) was Bishop of Buffalo.

Life

William Turner visited the Mungret College in Limerick. Turner studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Royal University of Ireland and at the Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide in Rome. He received on August 13, 1893 Sacrament of Holy Orders.

In 1894, William Turner, Professor at St. Paul 's Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Subsequently, he served as professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC active.

On March 10, 1919, he was named Pope Benedict XV. Bishop of Buffalo. The Archbishop of Baltimore, James Cardinal Gibbons, gave him on 30 March of the same year the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Richmond, Denis Joseph O'Connell, and the Bishop of Saint Augustine, Michael Joseph Curley.

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