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Isaac Thomas Hecker, oil painting by George Healy, 1858
Isaac Thomas Hecker, oil painting by George Healy, 1858

Isaac Thomas Hecker

American priest
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Dec. 18, 1819, New York City
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Dec. 22, 1888, New York City (aged 69)

Isaac Thomas Hecker (born Dec. 18, 1819, New York City—died Dec. 22, 1888, New York City) was a Roman Catholic priest who founded the Paulist Fathers, a diocesan organization for missionary work in New York. Educated in Europe, he was ordained a Redemptorist priest in England (1849) and with four associate priests (Francis A. Baker, George Deshon, Augustine F. Hewit, and Clarence A. Walworth) conducted missions in America. Well received, he later found it possible to open a house for U.S. Redemptorist missionaries. Having gone without permission to Rome for help, he was expelled from the order, but on appeal ...(100 of 171 words)

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