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John Chamberlain Ward
John Chamberlain Ward (May 25, 1857 – April 20, 1929) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, Bishop of Leavenworth from 1911 until his death in 1929. Biography The second of three children, John Ward was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio to Joseph and Ellen (née McGrath) Ward, who were both natives of County Westmeath, Ireland, and came to the United States in the 1850s. He attended the parochial school in Olmsted Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Olmsted and high school in Berea, Ohio, Berea. He continued his Classics, classical studies at Athenaeum of Ohio, St. Mary's College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati and at Assumption University (Windsor), Assumption College in Ontario, Canada. Returning to the United States, he studied philosophy and theology at Saint Meinrad School of Theology, St. Meinrad's Seminary in Spencer County, Indiana. Ward was Holy Orders, ordained to the Priesthood (Catholic Chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prelate
A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'prefer'; hence, a prelate is one set over others. The archetypal prelate is a bishop, whose prelature is his particular church. All other prelates, including the regular prelates such as abbots and major superiors, are based upon this original model of prelacy. Related terminology In a general sense, a "prelate" in the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches is a bishop or other ecclesiastical person who possesses ordinary authority of a jurisdiction, i.e., of a diocese or similar jurisdiction, e.g., ordinariates, apostolic vicariates/ exarchates, or territorial abbacies. It equally applies to cardinals, who enjoy a kind of "co-governance" of the church as the most senior ecclesiastical advisers and moral representatives of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
