# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-w-beschter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:24:10.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-w-beschter"
name: "John W. Beschter"
slug: "john-w-beschter"
description: "John William Beschter was a Catholic priest and Jesuit from the Duchy of Luxembourg in the Austrian Netherlands. He emigrated to the United States as a missionary in 1807, where he ministered in rural Pennsylvania and Maryland. Beschter was the last Jesuit pastor of St. Mary's Church in Lancaster, as well as the pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Baltimore, Maryland. He was also a priest at several other German-speaking churches in Pennsylvania."
tagline: "Luxembourg Jesuit missionary"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_W._Beschter_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1763-05-20"
deathDate: "1842-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.16
  momentum:             0.7000000000000002
  historical:           5.474370666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جۆن دبلیو بێچتەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون دبليو بيشتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A6%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E8%B4%9D%E6%96%BD%E7%89%B9"
    title: "约翰·贝施特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Beschter"
    title: "John W. Beschter"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Beschter"
    title: "John W. Beschter"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump