Eric Francis MacKenzie (December 6, 1893 – August 20, 1969) was a
Roman Catholic
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bishop.
Born in
Boston, Massachusetts, MacKenzie was ordained to the priesthood on October 20, 1918, for the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
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. He earned a doctorate in canon law from the Catholic University of America, his dissertation being: "The Delict of Heresy in Its Commission, Penalization, Absolution, (CUA diss. 77, 1932) 116 pp." On July 11, 1950, he was appointed
titular bishop
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of ''Alba'' and auxiliary bishop of the Boston Archdiocese and was ordained bishop on September 14, 1950.
Eric Francis MacKenzie
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1893 births
1969 deaths
Clergy from Boston
20th-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
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