John Murphy Farley
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John Murphy Farley was an Irish-born prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of New York from 1902 until his death in 1918, and became a cardinal in 1911. Farley previously served as a
John Murphy Farley
Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary, Queens, New York (2024)
John McCloskey
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John McCloskey was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first American-born archbishop of New York from 1864 until his death in 1885.
John Murphy Farley
…archdiocese assigned Farley first assignment as a curate at St. Peter's Parish in Staten Island, where he remained for two years. in 1872 Archbishop John McCloskey, who had previously met Farley in Rome, appointed him as his secretary. It was around this time that he changed the spelling of his name from "Farrelly…
McCloskey in 1876
St. John's College, New York City (1846)
St. Mary's Church, Albany, New York (2005)
The current St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan (2017)