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Peoria City and County, Illinois
The S. J. Clarke Publ. Co.
1912
 
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  RT. REV. PETER J. O'REILLY was born near Kells, in County Meath, Ireland, April 14, 1852, and was educated in the national schools of his native land.  In 1872 he entered All Hallows College at Dublin, Ireland, for scientific and theological training and was ordained to the priesthood June 24, 1877, after which he was assigned as assistant priest in Champaign, Illinois.  In 1878 he was assigned by Bishop Spalding as assistant at St. Mary's Cathedral, Peoria, and in 1881 became pastor at Danville, Illinois.  In 1893 he was made vicar general and pastor of St. Patrick's church at Peoria and on the 21st of September, 1900, was consecrated bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Peoria.
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