- Francis Xavier Ford
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name = Francis Xavier Ford
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birth_date = January 11, 1892
birth_place = Brooklyn
death_date = February 21,1952
death_place = Canton, China
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religion = Roman Catholic
parents = Austin Brendan Ford and Elizabeth Rellihan Ford
relations =Ita Ford
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footnotes =Francis Xavier Ford was an American Roman Catholic missionary in China. Ordained as a priest, as a member of
Maryknoll on December 5, 1917, he was ordained as a bishop September 21, 1935. He was imprisoned by the Communist Chinese, and died in prison in Canton February 21, 1952. [cite journal |title=U.S. Bishop Died in Red Chinese Jail Last Feb 21 |journal=New York Times |year=1952 |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F14FC385E177B93C6A91782D85F468585F9&scp=4&sq=%22Francis%20Xavier%20Ford%22&st=cse |accessdate=2008-10-08] [cite journal |title=On the King's Highway |journal=TIME |year=1952 |issue=September 15 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816984,00.html |accessdate=2008-10-08]Biographies
* Betz, Eva K. "To Far Places: The Story of Francis X. Ford" Credo Books 1953 OCLC 2940634
* "The Pagoda and the Cross. The Life of Bishop Ford of Maryknoll" Scribner 1967 OCLC 1376571Publications-Books
* "Stone in the King's Highway" McMullen 1953 OCLC 1124239
* "Come Holy Ghost" (Come Holy Spirit) McMullen 1953,Orbis Books 1976 ISBN 0883440679 9780883440674References
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