Louis Francis Kelleher (August 4, 1889 – November 26, 1946) was a

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bishop. Born in

Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, ...

, Kelleher was ordained to the priesthood on April 3, 1915. On April 21, 1945, he was appointed

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of ''Thenae, auxiliary bishop of the

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, and was ordained on June 8, 1945. He died while still in office.Louis Francis Kelleher
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1889 births 1946 deaths People from Cambridge, Massachusetts 20th-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops Catholics from Massachusetts American Roman Catholic clergy of Irish descent {{US-RC-bishop-stub