About John Edward Morris
Lived 1889 – 1987 (aged 98). John Edward Morris was an American catholic priest.
John Edward Morris, M.M. (1889–1987) was an American Roman Catholic priest who served as the Prefect of Peng-yang in Korea from 1930 to 1936.
Born in the United States on 1 January 1889, Morris was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River in Massachusetts on 13 June 1914. For seven years after his ordination, he was curate in St. Joseph’s Parish, Fall River, and then joined Maryknoll. He was solemnly professed a member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America on 31 January 1921.
Morris died on 10 July 1987, aged 98.
Literature Lee Chŏngsoon and Lee, Tae Ho, eds.: Father John E. Morris, M.M. The Second Prefect Apostolic of Peng Yang, Korea & Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Seoul: Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 1994).
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