UNITED STATES—A Venerable Bishop

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 24 October 1907, Page 33

UNITED STATES—A Venerable Bishop

The death is announced from Boston, U.S.A., on August 31, of the Most Reverend John Joseph Williams, Arcßbishop- of that city since 1875, where he" was born in , 1822, and also Dean of the American Hierarchy. After having graduated at -the College of Montreal in 1841, He took his theological course at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice, in Paris, where he was ordained in 1845. On his return to the United States he began his pastorate in his native city, and remained there until the time ol his death.