John Murphy Farley

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John Cardinal Farley
Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
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John Cardinal Murphy Farley (April 20, 1842 - September 17, 1918) was an Irish-American prelate, the seventh bishop (fourth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New 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.

[edit] References

  • Thomas J. Shelley; "John Cardinal Farley and Modernism in New York" Church History, Vol. 61, 1992
Preceded by
Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan		 Archbishop of New York
1902-1918		 Succeeded by
Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes
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