John Edward Morris
Welsh schoolmaster and historian
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| Intro | Welsh schoolmaster and historian | |
| Places | United Kingdom | |
| was | Educator Schoolmaster Historian | |
| Work field | Academia Social science | |
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| Birth | 1859 | |
| Death | 1933 (aged 74 years) |
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John Edward Morris, M.M. (1889–1987) was an American Roman Catholic priest who served as the Prefect of Peng-yang in Korea from 1930 to 1936.
Born in the United States on 1 January 1889, Morris was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River in Massachusetts on 13 June 1914. He was solemnly professed a member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America on 31 January 1921. He was appointed the Prefect of Peng-yang by Pope Pius XI on 1 April 1930. After six years of pastoral care to the prefecture, he resigned the post on 31 July 1936.
Monsignor Father Morris died on 10 July 1987, aged 98.