Charles Maurice Graham (1834–1912) was a British clergyman who held high office in the

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Life

Graham was born 5 April 1834 at Mhow, India. He was educated at Sacred Heart College at

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and the English College, Rome. He was ordained in 1857, and two years later became secretary to the bishop and treasurer of the Diocese of Plymouth.''The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers'', 1917, p. 68
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and

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of Cisamus on 25 September 1891, and succeeded as diocesan Bishop of Plymouth on 25 October 1902. He retired on 16 March 1911 and took the title Bishop of Tiberias ''

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''. He died in

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, Cornwall on 2 September 1912. Bishop Graham wrote the article on the "Diocese of Plymouth" for the ''

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