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John Chamberlain Ward (May 25, 1857 – April 20, 1929) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Leavenworth from 1911 until his death in 1929.

Biography

The second of three children, John Ward was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio to Joseph and Ellen (née McGrath) Ward, who were both natives of County Westmeath, Ireland, and came to the United States in the 1850s.

He attended the parochial school in Olmsted and high school in Berea. He continued his classical studies at St. Mary's College in Cincinnati and at Assumption College in Ontario, Canada. Returning to the United States, he studied philosophy and theology at St. Meinrad's Seminary in Spencer County, Indiana.

Ward was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Louis Mary Fink, O.S.B., on July 17, 1884. After serving as a curate at the cathedral of Leavenworth, Kansas for three months, he was named pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Marshall County. He was transferred to St. Patrick's Church in Parsons in 1888, and to St. Thomas' Church at Armourdale in 1895. From 1898 to 1909, he was rector of Leavenworth Cathedral. He was then sent to Kansas City as pastor of St. Mary's Church.

On November 25, 1910, Ward was appointed the third Bishop of Leavenworth by Pope Pius X. He received his episcopal consecration on February 22, 1911 from Archbishop Diomede Falconio, O.F.M., with Bishops Thomas Francis Lillis and John Joseph Hennessy serving as co-consecrators. He remained as bishop for the next eighteen years, until his death at age 71. Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City, Kansas is named in Ward's honor.

References

1. ^ Connelley, William Elsey (1918). A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Vol. IV. Lewis Publishing Company.
2. ^ Blackmar, Frank W., ed. (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. Chicago: Standard Publishing Company.
3. ^ Pace, Edward A., ed. (1922). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. XVII. New York: The Encyclopedia Press, Inc.
4. ^ "Bishop John Chamberlain Ward". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.

v t e Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
Ordinaries	Vicars John Baptist Miège Louis Mary Fink Bishops Louis Mary Fink Thomas Francis Lillis John Chamberlain Ward Francis Johannes Paul Clarence Schulte George Joseph Donnelly Edward Joseph Hunkeler Archbishops Edward Joseph Hunkeler Ignatius Jerome Strecker James Patrick Keleher Joseph Fred Naumann
Auxiliary bishop	Marion Francis Forst
Churches	Cathedral Cathedral of Saint Peter Parishes St. Patrick's Church, Atchison St. Benedict's Church, Bendena St. Mary's Church, Purcell Church of the Assumption, Topeka St. Joseph's Church, Topeka Former St. Bridget Church, Axtell St. Mary's Mission, St. Marys
Education	Higher education Benedictine College Donnelly College University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth High schools Bishop Miege High School, Roeland Park Bishop Ward High School, Kansas City Hayden High School, Topeka Immaculata High School, Leavenworth Maur Hill – Mount Academy, Atchison St. James Academy, Lenexa St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Overland Park
Priests	John Francis Cunningham
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• 1857 births
• 1929 deaths
• People from Cuyahoga County, Ohio
• American Roman Catholic clergy of Irish descent
• The Athenaeum of Ohio alumni
• Roman Catholic bishops of Leavenworth
• 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States
• Catholics from Ohio