# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-richard-kenrick
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:40:06.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-richard-kenrick"
name: "Peter Richard Kenrick"
slug: "peter-richard-kenrick"
description: "Peter Richard Kenrick was an Irish Catholic priest who served as Bishop of St. Louis from 1843 to 1895. The see was made an archdiocese in 1847, when he was called as the first archbishop west of the Mississippi River. The archdiocese covered nearly all the territory of the Louisiana Purchase. He served in this position for nearly 50 years, until months before his death."
tagline: "Catholic bishop (1806–1896)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Archbishop_Peter_Richard_Kenrick.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1806-08-17"
deathDate: "1896-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.85
  momentum:             3.450413223140495
  historical:           7.008748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Richard_Kenrick"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "بيتر ريتشارد كينريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Richard_Kenrick"
    title: "Peter Richard Kenrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Richard_Kenrick"
    title: "Peter Richard Kenrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Richard_Kenrick"
    title: "Peter Richard Kenrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Richard_Kenrick"
    title: "Peter Richard Kenrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Richard_Kenrick"
    title: "Peter Richard Kenrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Richard_Kenrick"
    title: "Peter Richard Kenrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2077837"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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