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Ogorman, James, D.D.

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a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in America. of whose early history we are uninformed, flourished in recent times as vicar-apostolic of Nebraska, the territories of Montana and Wyoming, and part of Dakota, to which he was appointed May 8, 1859, having been previously consecrated bishop of Raphanea, a nominal see. He died in Cincinnati July 3, 1874. His loss was very generally felt by the Roman Catholics. in the United States, by whom he' was highly esteemed.