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William O'Shea (bishop)
William Francis
O'Shea
, M.M. was an
American
Roman Catholic bishop
who served as the
Vicar Apostolic of Heijo
in
Korea
from 1939 to 1944.
Born in Greenwich
Valley
of
New York City, New York, United States
on
9 December
1884, he was
ordained
a
priest
for the
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
on
5 December
1917. O'Shea was appointed the
Vicar Apostolic
of Heijo and
Titular Bishop of Naissus
on 11
July 1939
. He was
consecrated
by
Pope Pius XII
on
29 October
1939, with archbishops
Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini
and
Henri Streicher
serving as co-consecrators.
O'Shea resigned on 17
April 1944
and
died
on
22 February
1945, aged 60.