- John Murphy Farley
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See=New York|John Cardinal Murphy Farley (
April 20 ,1842 -September 17 ,1918 ) was an Irish-American prelate, the seventh bishop (fourth archbishop) of theRoman Catholic diocese ofNew York .He was born in Newtown-Hamilton, Co. Armagh, Ireland, and was ordained a priest in 1870. He was appointed an Auxiliary Bishop of New York in 1895. He was Appointed Archbishop of New York on September 15, 1902 and elevated to Cardinal in 1911, serving as archbishop until his death. He is interred in the crypt under the altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
His portrait was painted in 1912 by the Swiss-born American painter
Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947) and exhibited at the Knoedler Gallery the following Spring.References
* Thomas J. Shelley; "John Cardinal Farley and Modernism in New York" "Church History", Vol. 61, 1992
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