Researching Joseph Gray
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The name Joseph means "God shall add (another son)" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Joseph Gray (bishop)
Joseph Gray (20 October 1919 – 7 May 1999) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1980 to 1995.
Born in Finternagh, County Cavan, Ireland on 20 October 1919, educated at St. Patrick's College, Cavan, he entered the seminary of St Mary's Oscott, Birmingham, he was ordained to the priesthood on 20 June 1943. He pursued further study in Canon Law at the Dunboyne Institute, Maynooth College, earning his Licentiate in Canon Law in 1950, in 1959 he was invited to Rome, to study at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, where he wrote a thesis for his Doctorate in Canon Law.
He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Liverpool and Titular Bishop of Mercia on 19 December 1968. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 16 February 1969, the principal consecrator was George Andrew Beck, Archbishop of Liverpool, and the principal co-consecrators were George Patrick Dwyer, Archbishop of Birmingham and Augustine Harris, Bishop of Middlesbrough. Eleven years later, he was appointed the Bishop of Shrewsbury on 19 August 1980.
He retired on 23 June 1995 and assumed the title Bishop emeritus of Shrewsbury. He died on 7 May 1999, aged 79.
Source: Joseph Gray (bishop), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJoseph Gray (runner)
Joseph Gray (born 20 January 1984) is an American world champion runner who competes mostly in trail, mountain and snowshoe races. He won the World Mountain Running Championships in 2016. He is the first Black American to not only make the Team USA World Mountain Running Team, but also the first Black American to win the USA National Mountain Running Championships and the World Mountain Running Championships.
Gray was voted the greatest male mountain runner of all time by a poll conducted by the World Mountain Running Association.
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