Joseph Masterson
Male, Person
1899 –
Who is Joseph Masterson?
Joseph Masterson was an English Roman Catholic Clergyman and sometime Archbishop of Birmingham.
Masterson was born in Ardwick, Manchester, England, the son of William Masterson, an Irish immigrant shopkeeper and his wife Celia. From 1910, he was educated at the Xaverian College, Rusholme until January 1915 when he was accepted as a student of the Diocese of Salford and continued his studies for a term at St Bede's College, Manchester.
He was ordained a priest on 27 July 1924 and in 1940 was appointed Parish Priest Priest at St. Mary’s of The Angels and St.Clare, Levenshulme.
He was elevated Archbishop of Birmingham on 8 February 1947 and was installed on 19 March 1947. His principal consecrator was Cardinal Bernard Griffin, co-consecrators Bishop of Salford Henry Vincent Marshall and Bishop of Soli Humphrey Bright. He remained in that post until his death on 30 November 1953.
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- Born
- Jan 29, 1899
Manchester - Religion
- Catholicism
- Lived in
- Manchester
- Died
- Jun 2, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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