# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-lawson-howze
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:03:58.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-lawson-howze"
name: "Joseph Lawson Howze"
slug: "joseph-lawson-howze"
description: "Joseph Lawson Edward Howze was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Biloxi from 1977 to 2001. He was the first openly Black Catholic ordinary of a U.S. Catholic diocese. Howze previously served as auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Natchez-Jackson from 1972 to 1977."
tagline: "American Catholic bishop (1923-2019)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Joseph_Lawson_Howze.jpg/330px-Joseph_Lawson_Howze.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1923-08-30"
deathDate: "2019-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.3
  momentum:             10.57471264367816
  historical:           6.138229333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lawson_Howze"
    title: "Joseph Lawson Howze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "چوزيف لوسون هاوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lawson_Howze"
    title: "Joseph Lawson Howze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lawson_Howze"
    title: "Joseph Lawson Howze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lawson_Howze"
    title: "Joseph Lawson Howze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lawson_Howze"
    title: "Joseph Lawson Howze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lawson_Howze"
    title: "Joseph Lawson Howze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203341"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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