# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lancaster-spalding
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:02:18.144Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lancaster-spalding"
name: "John Lancaster Spalding"
slug: "john-lancaster-spalding"
description: "John Lancaster Spalding was an American Catholic author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of Peoria in Illinois from 1877 to 1908. He was also a co-founder of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and a co-creator of the Baltimore Catechism. Spalding was also a prolific writer on religion and education."
tagline: "Catholic bishop"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Lancaster_Spalding.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1840-06-02"
deathDate: "1916-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.675702666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جون لانكستر سبالدينغ"
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    title: "جون لانكستر سبالدينج"
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    title: "John Lancaster Spalding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lancaster_Spalding"
    title: "John Lancaster Spalding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lancaster_Spalding"
    title: "John Lancaster Spalding"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lancaster_Spalding"
    title: "John Lancaster Spalding"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Lancaster_Spalding"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump