# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benedict-joseph-fenwick
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:30:34.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benedict-joseph-fenwick"
name: "Benedict Joseph Fenwick"
slug: "benedict-joseph-fenwick"
description: "Benedict Joseph Fenwick was an American Catholic prelate, Jesuit, and educator who served as the bishop of Boston from 1825 until his death in 1846. In 1843, he founded the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Prior to that, he was twice the president of Georgetown College in Washington D.C. and established several educational institutions in New York City and Boston."
tagline: "American Catholic bishop"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fenwick_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1782-09-03"
deathDate: "1846-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4669887278582932
  historical:           10.95673333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Benedict Joseph Fenwick"
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    title: "Benedict Joseph Fenwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_J._Fenwick"
    title: "Benedict J. Fenwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Benedict Joseph Fenwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Benedict Joseph Fenwick"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump