1. Francis Clement Kelley was a Canadian-born Catholic bishop.
12 Facts About Francis Kelley
1. 2.
Francis Kelley was the second Bishop of Oklahoma City, as well as an author and diplomat.
3.
Francis Kelley was a Catholic priest for 54 years, and bishop for 23 years.
4.
Francis Clement Kelley was born in Vernon River, Prince Edward Island, Canada, to John and Mary Kelley.
5.
Francis Kelley was educated at St Dunstan's College, Prince Edward Island, and ordained a priest for the diocese of Detroit, Michigan, in 1893.
6.
Francis Kelley was later promoted to the rank of colonel.
7.
Francis Kelley served as vice commander general of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, a veterans' group, for five years.
8.
Francis Kelley initiated unofficial negotiations between the Vatican and the Italian government for a settlement of the Roman Question.
9.
Two years after the war, Francis Kelley was sent to England by the Vatican to settle postwar differences over German and American missions.
10.
Francis Kelley established a seminary in Texas for exiled Mexican seminarians and clergy.
11.
In 1932, Kelley succeeded Bishop Joseph H Conroy of Ogdensburg, New York as Chairman of the Bishops Catholic Committee on Scouting.
12.
Bishop Francis Kelley died in Oklahoma City on February 1,1948, aged 77.