Francisco Mora y Borrell
Francisco Mora i Borrell was a Catalan Catholic priest, who served as the Bishop of MontereyLos Angeles from 1878 to 1896.
Mora was born in Gurb, a village in the comarca of Osona in the Province of Barcelona, onNovember 1827. Where in Spain he did his seminary studies is not known. He then emigrated to the United States, where he was received and ordained a priest by Bishop Thaddeus Amat y Brusi, C.M., for the Diocese of Monterey, onMarch 1856. The bishop then assigned him to serve as a missionary priest in several rural parishes until 1863, when he was named Rector of the Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles.
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