James Albert Duffy

Bishop James Albert Duffy was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Grand Island , Nebraska from 1913 to 1931.

Duffy was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the third child of James J. Duffy and Johanna Shiely. When the death of the parents in 1879 orphaned the eight Duffy children, James Albert went to live at the Boys Orphan Asylum in Minneapolis. From 1887 to 1893 he was a student at the University of St. Thomas and subsequently attended Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity from 1894 to 1899.

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