Bishop, William
Bishop, William (Howard)
(1885–1952) religious leader; born in Washington, D.C. Ordained in the Baltimore archdiocese (1915), he founded the first Catholic diocesan Rural Life Conference (1925), headed the national Rural Life Conference (1928–33), and won approval to found the Glenmary Home Missioners, for pastoral work in sparsely Catholic rural areas (1937).The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.