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This black and white photograph shows Bishop John F. Cunningham,(1842-1919), copied from the" Biographical History of Cloud County, Kansas" by Mrs. E.F. Hollibaugh. Cunningham a native of Kerry, Ireland, began his spiritual career when he graduated in 1860 from St. Benedict's College in Atchison, Kansas. After theological courses from St. Francis' Seminary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was ordained as a priest on August 8,1865 in Leavenworth, Kansas. As a priest Cunningham became the first Catholic residential pastor of Fort Scott, Kansas from 1865 to 1868. Later in 1868, he transferred to St. John's church in Lawrence, Kansas where he helped parishioners build a new church. For a number of years he ministered throughout Kansas before he became pastor of Assumption church in Topeka, Kansas from 1876 to 1882. Cunningham's spiritual responsibilities to his parishioners and to the Catholic church were further recognized when he became vicar general of the Leavenworth diocese in 1881. The following year he was appointed rector of the Leavenworth cathedral 1882 to 1887. On September 21, 1898 Cunningham became the Bishop of Concordia a position he held until his death on June 23, 1919 at the age of seventy-seven.
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
Item Number: 214470
Call Number: B Cunningham, John *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214470
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Religion - Bishop
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Religion - Priests
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Catholic
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Education - Private - Religious
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Atchison
Places - Cities and towns - Concordia
Places - Cities and towns - Fort Scott
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Atchison
Places - Counties - Bourbon
Places - Counties - Cloud
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Photographs
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