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New Zealand Tablet, 17 April 1913, Page 47

The Right Rev. John Joseph Hogan, of Kansas City, Mo., the oldest prelate both in years and service, in the United States, passed away on February 21, aged 84 years. Bishop - Hogan was born at Cahir-Guilla-more, in tho parish of Bruff, County Limerick, on May 12, 1829. At the ago of eighteen he went to the United States and entered a theological seminary in St. Louis where he was ordained a priest five years later. When, in 1868, the diocese of St. Joseph was created Father Hogan was made Bishop of that See which position he held fourteen years. In 1882 he went to the diocese of western Missouri with headquarters in Kansas City. April 10, 1912, marked the sixtieth year of Bishop Hogan’s priesthood.