William J Quarter was an Irish American prelate of the Catholic Church.
11 Facts About William Quarter
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William Quarter was born in Killurin, King's County, Ireland to Michael and Ann Quarter.
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William Quarter studied the classics at private academies in Tullamore from 1814 to 1822.
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William Quarter completed his theological studies in 1829 and then went to New York, where he was ordained a priest by Bishop John Dubois on September 19 of that year.
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William Quarter then served as a curate at St Peter's Church in Manhattan, and ministered to the sick and dying during the cholera epidemic of 1832.
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William Quarter placed the children who had been orphaned by the epidemic under the care of the Sisters of Charity.
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William Quarter received Maximilian Oertel, a Lutheran minister, into the Catholic Church in 1840.
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On November 28,1843, William Quarter was appointed the first Bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Chicago, Illinois, by Pope Gregory XVI.
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William Quarter introduced into the diocese the Sisters of Mercy from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, including Mary Francis Xavier Warde.
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William Quarter held the first diocesan synod and was the first American bishop to establish theological conferences.
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William Quarter died in Chicago on April 10,1848, at the age of 42.