Bishop Keane

Most Reverend John Joseph Keane, DD
Archbishop of Dubuque
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	July 24, 1900
Term ended	April 28, 1911
Predecessor	John Hennessey
Successor	James John Keane
Orders
Ordination	July 2, 1866 by Martin John Spalding
Consecration	August 25, 1878 by James Gibbons
Personal details
Born	(1839-09-12)September 12, 1839 Ballyshannon, County Donegal, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died	June 22, 1918(1918-06-22) (aged 78) Dubuque, Iowa, USA
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John Joseph Keane (September 12, 1839 – June 22, 1918) was an American Roman Catholic archbishop in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Keane was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, to Hugh and Fannnie (Connolly) Keane. He was one of five children, and the family immigrated to the United States when he was seven years old. He was educated at Saint Charles College, Ellicott City, Maryland, and at Saint Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. On July 2, 1866 he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore by Archbishop Martin John Spalding and was made curate of St. Patrick's Church in Washington, D.C., where he spent 12 years. He helped form both the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America and the Catholic Young Men's National Union in 1872, and the Carroll Society in 1873. He also established the Tabenacle Society in Washington that worked among poor churches throughout the United States.

On March 28, 1878 Pope Leo XIII appointed Keane as the fifth Bishop of Richmond when he was 38 years old. He was consecrated bishop on August 25, 1878 by Archbishop James Gibbons of Baltimore, who was his predecessor in Richmond. Bishops John Joseph Kain of Wheeling and Thomas Patrick Roger Foley of Chicago, were the principal co-consecrators. He established the Confraternity of the Holy Ghost in the diocese, and published A Sodality Manual for the Use of the Servants of the Holy Ghost in 1880. Despite opposition, he founded schools and churches for African-Americans. He lectured before Protestant groups throughout the diocese to lessen prejudice against the church. In 1884 he attended the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. The following May he was appointed by the Council to the committee to establish a Catholic university in the United States.