Vincent Stanislaus Waters
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Vincent Stanislaus Waters was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Raleigh from 1945 until his death in 1974. He is best known for desegregating his diocese early on in the civil right
Vincent Stanislaus Waters
Peter Leo Ireton
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Peter Leo Ireton was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia from 1945 until his death in 1958.
Vincent Stanislaus Waters
…Waters was appointed the third bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on May 15, 1945, from Bishop Peter Ireton, with Bishops Gerald O'Hara and Emmet M. Walsh serving as co-consecrators. In 1953, a year before Brown v. Board of Education decision by the US Supreme…
Peter Leo Ireton