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NOLL, JOHN FRANCIS: 1875-

John Francis Noll , son of John G. and Anna Ford Noll, was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Jan. 25, 1875. He attended St. Lawrence College and graduated from Nit. St. Mary's Seminary in Cincinnati in 1898, receiving the LL.D. degree from Notre Dame in 1917. In 1898 he was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Church and occupied pulpits in various Indiana towns until 1925, when he was consecrated Bishop of Fort Wayne . He was highly successful in church and institutional building and fund raising and in 1904 founded the periodical, OUR SUNDAY VISITOR.

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