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Burke (MAURICE FRANCIS an American)

MAURICE FRANCIS, an American Roman Catholic bishop, born in Ireland, in 1845. He was educated in several Catholic universities in the United States and at the American College in Rome. He was ordained priest in 1875. From 1878 to 1887 he was rector of St. Mary's Church, Joliet, Ill., and in the latter year was consecrated bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo. In 1893 he was transferred to the see of St. Joseph, Mo.