Francis Joseph Gossman was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as a bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina from 1975 to 2006.
Gossman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Frank and Genevieve Gossman. He attended St. Charles College in Ellicott City and St. Marys Seminary in Baltimore, from where he obtained a Bachelors degree in 1952. He then furthered his studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
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