# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-baptist-purcell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:08:15.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-baptist-purcell"
name: "John Baptist Purcell"
slug: "john-baptist-purcell"
description: "John Baptist Purcell was an Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of Cincinnati in Ohio from 1833 to his death in 1883, and he was elevated to the rank of archbishop in 1850. He formed the basis of Father Ferrand, the Ohio-based \"Irish by birth, French by ancestry\" character in the prologue of Willa Cather's historical novel Death Comes for the Archbishop who goes to Rome asking for a bishop for New Mexico Territory."
tagline: "Roman Catholic archbishop (1800-1883)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Baptist_Purcell-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1800-02-26"
deathDate: "1883-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.078690666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Baptist Purcell"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "جون بابتيست بورسيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baptist_Purcell"
    title: "John Baptist Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baptist_Purcell"
    title: "John Baptist Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baptist_Purcell"
    title: "John Baptist Purcell"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baptist_Purcell"
    title: "John Baptist Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baptist_Purcell"
    title: "John Baptist Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baptist_Purcell"
    title: "John Baptist Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baptist_Purcell"
    title: "John Baptist Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172682"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump